Update: Apple Pay ICOCA launched 2023-06-27 7:00 am JST. As promised back in 2020, JR West finally launched Mobile ICOCA for Osaifu Keitai Android devices on March 22, with Apple […]
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The ¥10 barrier-free train station tax fare increase
The railway station barrier-free fee system is “a Japanese railway fare system established with the aim of promoting barrier-free railway stations in urban areas” by leveraging a fee on urban […]
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The transit gate fare evasion rainbow alarm
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new transit gate alarm sound going around. It sounds like this: Yeah, that sound. I hear it more and more these days but […]
Mobile Payments - Transit
State of Suica 2023
It’s time to take a look at Suica and Japanese mobile transit ticketing developments expected for 2023. The Suica transit platform and Transit IC partners will introduce some big and […]
Apple Pay Suica - FeliCa - NFC - Transit
State of Suica 2022
Now that the 1st wave of Suica 2 in 1 card launches is complete, it’s a good time to review the ‘State of Suica’. And it’s always interesting to examine […]
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USA transit fare system evolution
Reece Martin posted an interesting video, So you built the wrong transit system, that examines the American penchant for building cheap light rail systems that don’t make long term sense. […]