Apple Pay Octopus was announced in July as ‘coming soon’ with no official indication from Octopus Cards Limited when coming soon would happen. Today is the last day of November, […]
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Touchless walkthrough transit gates coming in 2020?
Mobile Suica has been under a lot of stress this week. The cloud service almost went down under a heavy load on November 26, at the same time the Suica […]
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Fields of Dreams: the endlessly looping open loop vs closed loop transit debate
MacRumors reported that Apple Pay Express Transit support is finally arriving, bit by bit, on the TfL system after being announced back in May. I only noticed the piece because […]
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What’s the difference between iOS 13 Wallet created Suica and SuicaEng?
NoticeSuicaEng is obsolete. It is no longer available on App Store, installed SuicaEng does not launch and should be deleted. The Japanese language only Suica app is still available, but […]
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Smart Octopus Offline Until Further Notice
Octopus Cards Limited suspended Smart Octopus online services on November 18 around 6pm local time: All online services for Smart Octopus are temporarily unavailable until further notice. It was impossible […]
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JR Central Online EX Ticketing Extends to Kyushu Shinkansen in 2022
JR Central/JR West/JR Kyushu issued a joint PR release that JR Central’s EX Shinkansen eTicket system, encompassing both EXPress Reservation and smartEX services, will be adding JR Kyushu Hakata~Kagomashima Shinkansen […]