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Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit

Timeout: a very long transit card transit

It’s been a year since JR Central’s TOICA network was expanded to more stations making Suica-TOICA-ICOCA cross region commuter passes available for the very first time. Regular transit cards are […]

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PASMO - Suica

Only Japan has cute transit card mascots?! Why?

I have been in Japan for so long that I assumed the cute, cleverly effective transit card mascot characters like Suica penguin, PASMO robot, ICOCA duck (er platypus?), etc., are […]

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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Suica

Apple Pay Suica • PASMO • Octopus service outages follow the Facebook one

16:00~18:00 October 5, 2021 JSTApple Pay / iCloud system status updated to ‘outage resolved’ at 16:00 JST. Mobile Suica and Mobile PASMO Apple Pay services were also listed as ‘restored’ […]

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SmartEX - EXPRESS - Suica - Transit

My JR-EAST mess

My JR-EAST, like a lot of JR East software services, is a nice idea, poorly implemented. It’s an attempt to unify scattered account login IDs for various JR East web […]

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Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - CASHLESS - EMV - FeliCa - Mobile Payments - QR Code Payments - Suica

Japan mobile payment survey results

I gave the Twitter survey function a workout and asked 2 questions: Which Japanese mobile payment do you use most? Which Japanese reward points do you use most? The results […]

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Suica App 3D Secure authorization for all non-Apple Pay in-app purchases

More fallout from the VISA JP Apple Pay agreement: JR East announced they will implement 3D Secure in iOS Suica App, requiring authorization for all non-Apple Pay in-app purchases. Suica […]

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