Mobile Suica has been under a lot of stress this week. The cloud service almost went down under a heavy load on November 26, at the same time the Suica […]
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Suica and Octopus Compared
Hong Kong’s Octopus is coming to Apple Pay soon, it shares the same FeliCa technology base with Suica but there are some interesting differences. BrandingThe mobile version of Suica is […]
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Suica, Toica, ICOCA integrating commuter pass regions staring in March 2021
Big things sometimes come in small packages. JR East, JR Central, JR West issued a joint press statement on September 20 that starting in April 2021, Suica-Toica-ICOCA commuter pass regions […]
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Unlocking Suica App Security Lock
How to get a new password issued for a locked Suica App and Mobile Suica account.
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AWS outage takes down PayPay
The Amazon Web Service outage that started around 1pm August 23 local Japan time took down some PayPay service along with it. Japanese users tweeted about payment and recharge not […]
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Reminder: JR East Suica System Downtime July 6 9pm~5am
Just a friendly reminder that the first of JR East’s major Suica system maintenance downtimes starts Saturday July 6 at 9pm and runs to 5am. Mobile Suica and JR East […]