One nice feature of Apple Pay Suica is that once set up it’s just a regular Suica transit card. You can recharge Apple Pay Suica with cash, and you can use it without a network connection: Apple Pay Suica works perfectly in Airplane Mode. This is handy for long train […]
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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 you can get around this limitation with the JR East Suica app. It’s not especially tricky but there are some […]
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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 are not compatible with Express Transit. Fortunately this is changing fast. Panasonic makes some of the most reliable NFC readers […]
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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 eyes glued to their feature phones. Why? Feature phones were only for making calls, right? Japanese i-mode feature phones had […]