Sections JR East Mobile Ticket BasicsEki-Net DiscountsJRE POINT IntegrationRegistrationTicket PurchaseeTicket and Ticketless Use IntroJR East online ticketing service comes in 2 flavors: (1) Domestic Japanese only Eki-Net online ticketing webpage […]
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VISA blocking foreign issue cards for select Japanese in-app and online payments
(Non-JP VISA now works with Apple Pay Suica, latest VISA situation update here) When foreign issue VISA cards in Wallet stopped working for Apple Pay In-App Suica and PASMO recharge […]
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Apple Pay Suica recharge security block
JR East online services (Mobile Suica, JRE POINT, Eki-Net), along with many other online services that have accounts with credit cards, have been inundated with phishing attacks since the Russia-Ukraine […]
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iOS 16 Wallet: expanding the Apple Pay experience, aka Suica auto-charge for the rest of us
iOS 15 added big new features to Wallet, expanding digital keys from cars to include home, office and hotels and ID in Wallet driver licenses for the first time. There […]
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Apple removes region requirement for Suica, swaps recharge with top up and other updates
Sometimes it takes Apple support pages a while to acknowledge the current reality of iOS. iOS 15 Wallet brought ‘region free’ transit cards with an improved UI so that allowed […]
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iOS 15.4 Face ID with a mask restores the Apple Pay Suica Express Transit experience
The iOS 15.4 update is out. The biggest feature by far is Use Face ID with a Mask. It makes daily iPhone use a much better experience for those wearing […]