It’s time to take a look at Suica and Japanese mobile transit ticketing developments expected for 2023. The Suica transit platform and Transit IC partners will introduce some big and important new service in 2023 that will play out over the next few years. Some like Cloud Suica, were due […]
Mobile Transit
High School Mobile Suica Commuter Passes and Apple Watch Family Sharing
There’s a very interesting section at the in the Apple Platform Security May 2022 document in the section covering transit and eMoney cards. Adding transit and eMoney cards to a family member’s Apple WatchIn iOS 15 and watchOS 8, the organizer of an iCloud family can add transit and eMoney […]
FeliCa - Mobile Payments - PASMO - Suica - Transit
Google Pixel Watch Suica…with limits
Now that Google Pixel Watch Suica is here, the obvious questions are: is it global NFC or is it limited to JP models, is Suica the only JP payment service? EMV is there of course, PASMO joined Google Pay recently with clear signs that Wear OS support is also in […]
Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Wallet
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 situation erupted in February. It has gotten to the point that JRE POINT announced temporary security limitations on July 6: […]
Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Wallet - Mobile Payments - NFC - QR Code Payments - Suica App
Recharge your recharge, the winner/loser debate doesn’t mean jack in the post-Apple Pay Japanese payments market
I love articles like this one. It’s fun examining how the writer, freelancer Meiko Homma, takes old news bits, worn-out arguments and weaves them into a ‘new’ narrative with a titillatingly hot title: “QR Code payments won the cashless race, Suica utterly defeated.” Her article trots out some QR Code […]