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Apple - Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - CASHLESS - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - Suica - Suica App - Transit

Touchless walkthrough transit gates coming in 2020?

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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Apple - Apple Pay + Wallet - Apple Pay Octopus - Apple Pay Transit - Mobile Payments - NFC - NFC-Felica - Suica App

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 […]

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