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 station Suica ticket machine services are going offline. During the offline period you can still use plastic Suica and Apple […]
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Remove Suica and other transit or e-Money cards from Wallet but not lose them
A reader question: What’s the process if I want to remove Suica card from Apple Pay Wallet but not lose the card? I plan to sell my phone but have a commuter pass that’s still valid. This one is super easy. Go to Wallet, tap Suica, tap “˙˙˙” in the […]
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Mobile Suica Shinkansen eTicket Service Ends March 2020
When you purchase Shinkansen eTickets in Suica App, you’ll see a small notice at the bottom of the menu screen: Mobile Suica Shinkansen eTicket Service ends March 2020. Does this mean we’ll have to go back to paper tickets? Not at all. JR East has been coy about the new […]
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Maintenance and Localization
Online guides are like underwear, if not changed regularly, they get smelly and nasty. There were some big changes in March 2019 from JR East: multilingual help support and SuicaEng. This has greatly simplified Apple Pay Suica setup for virtual cards but has required updates to my Apple Pay Suica […]
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Free Mobile Suica for Everybody in 2020
JR East announced the end of the Mobile Suica ¥1030 annual membership fee for all Android devices on February 26 2020. Mobile Suica is free for Apple Pay users. JR East also announced the end of Symbian OS feature phone support with most devices being cut off from Mobile Suica […]