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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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 […]
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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 […]
Apple Pay Suica - Apple Wallet - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC tags - Transit
Super Suica Cloud
A Japanese friend once told me that when Suica first came out, young people in Tokyo sent Suica cards to hometown families to use for coming to Tokyo. But parents […]
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Google Pay PASMO
Notice: Google Pay PASMO launched 2022-09-28 (with some limitations) Google Pay added Suica with a burst of fanfare in May 2018 that quickly soured when it became clear that Google […]
Mobile Transit
JR East Eki-Net overview: will mobile ticketing go mainstream with v2.0 JRE POINT integration?
One unfortunate legacy of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) breakup and privatization in the late 1980’s was a fragmented ticketing system. The JNR paper ticket system worked very well. I […]