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 […]
Mobile Transit
How much does Smart Navigo HCE suck?
It’s interesting parsing app reviews that say ‘this app sucks’. How does it suck and why? As I’ve said before, the overwhelming negative App Store reviews for Suica App are […]
Mobile Payments - Suica
Phishing scams target JR East online services
The Council of Anti-Phishing Japan has issued a warning of email phishing scams targeting JR East Mobile Suica, Eki-Net and VIEW credit card user accounts, following earlier warnings posted on […]
Apple Pay PASMO - Apple Pay Suica - PASMO - Suica
The Weekly
2022-03-14 Spring Cleaning Mobile Suica App Day PassesAs promised Mobile Suica added day passes starting March 12. These are digital versions of the 4 day passes available for plastic Suica […]
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 […]
Apple Pay Suica - Apple Pay Transit - NFC-Felica - Suica - Transit
Timeout: a very long transit card transit
It’s been a year since JR Central’s TOICA network was expanded to more stations making Suica-TOICA-ICOCA cross region commuter passes available for the very first time. Regular transit cards are […]