Examine the Where you can ride transit using Apple Pay support page and you’ll notice that some listed entries have an ‘*Express Mode supported’ tag and some don’t. There is […]
Mobile Transit
The Apple Pay Navigo charm offensive
Apple Pay Navigo is finally here after a very long gestation, a French government dictated delay and EU dictated open NFC Host Card Emulation, just in time for the Paris […]
Mobile Transit
Octopus ditches FeliCa for PBOC
Called it: Octopus announced NFC A HCE Octopus for Android, an HCE version of PBOC 2.0 which is an EMV clone, i.e. no licensing fees to pay to EMVCo, Octopus […]
Mobile Transit
Disability fare Suica and Eki-Net Services
I have been wanting to write about Disability Fare Suica/PASMO ever since the service started in March 2023. When I lived in Osaka my deaf friends always used the staffed […]
Mobile Transit
JR Shinkansen ticket disinformation
When westerners first visited Edo, soon to be renamed Tokyo, most of them looked down on local fire fighters as backward and ill-equipped for the job. Only a few took […]
Mobile Transit
Hiroshima dumps proprietary PASPY FeliCa transit card…for a different kind of proprietary FeliCa transit card
Talk about back tracking. When Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.,Ltd. (Hiroden) announced in March 2022 that they were replacing the FeliCa based Hiroshima region proprietary PASPY transit card with QR Code […]