Now that plastic Suica cards are mostly unavailable unless you tearfully plead with a kind hearted JR East station staffer that you lost it and need a replacement Suica, inbound […]
Mobile Transit
How long will the Suica card shortage last? (Updated)
2024-09-01 Update The shortage is over, Suica and PASMO cards are back on sale at local station kiosks The first indication that something was up the FeliCa chip supply chain […]
Mobile Payments
A warning sign for Japanese open loop transit operators: when the EMV payment network goes down, FeliCa networks keep working
Mobile Suica has had a rough 2 weeks. On June 24 a construction error during server center power supply expansion work left JR East Mobile Suica and Eki-Net online reservation […]
Mobile Payments
MythBusters: plastic Suica isn’t safer than Mobile Suica
b A year ago on 2-23-06-24 0:37 to 13:00 JST, all of JR East online services went offline due to a mishap during server center related power supply construction. The […]
Help Desk
The Sad State of Apple Pay Suica Online Guides
Now that tourists are back in Japan it’s time to take a look at the state of Apple Pay Suica English language guides. Since AtaDistance is mostly a collection of […]
Mobile Payments
Suica 2.0 Platform Closeup: How Suica 2.0 will remove IC fare region barriers and much more
The Suica cross region problem, no thru transit going from the Suica area to the TOICA area for example, is a well known and criticized shortcoming of the Transit IC […]