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 goes into the Suica card SF (Stored Fare) balance. When you add a physical Suica card into Apple Pay, iPhone […]
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Analyzing Apple Pay Japan Results for 2017 Q2 (U)
Just rode JRE's Yamanote line with Apple Pay. Can't wait for our customers in Japan to start using it later this month. pic.twitter.com/mMcK3iIaS4 — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) October 13, 2016 Japanese IT journalist Junya Suzuki analyzes Tim Cook’s Apple Pay Japan comment in the 2017 Q2 earnings call for Business […]
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Apple Pay Suica in Airplane Mode
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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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 […]
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