When you purchase a physical Suica card from a JR East station ticket machine, the minimum purchase price is ¥1,000. ¥500 goes to the Suica ‘card deposit’, the remaining ¥500 […]
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Analyzing Apple Pay Japan Results for 2017 Q2 (U)
Japanese IT journalist Junya Suzuki analyzes Tim Cook’s Apple Pay Japan comment in the 2017 Q2 earnings call for Business Insider Japan. In Japan, where Apple Pay launched last October, […]
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Apple Pay Suica in Airplane Mode
This is handy for long train trips when you want to conserve battery power. The one thing you don’t want to do is run out of battery power before going […]
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Adding Suica to older iPhones with Apple Watch Series 3 (U)
Here’s how to add a virtual Suica to an older iPhone from abroad paired with Apple Watch Series 3. Loading a physical Suica card requires iPhone 8 or above but […]
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Apple Pay Suica Express Transit & NFC Readers
Apple Pay Suica Express Transit is one of the great killer features of Apple Pay in Japan. Most of the time it works great but some older readers in stores […]
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Suica App Review
i-modeThere is a funny story from the 2005 President Bush visit to Japan. The Bush staff freaked out when they rode the Tokyo trains and saw that most of the Japanese had […]