Back in 2019 then JR East CEO Yūji Fukuzawa announced in a Sankei Newspaper interview that JR East would achieve 100% Suica service coverage by the end of FY 2021 […]
Mobile Payments - Mobile Transit
Dead Penguin: Suica 2026
What a Suica year. After all that pie in the sky 2024 Suica Renaissance marketing glitz, we should have known the ugly reality 2025 had in store for us when […]
Mobile Payments - Mobile Transit
New JR East teppay QR payment platform coming to Mobile Suica / PASMO Apps
JR East and PASMO announced a new payment platform called teppay that will be coming to Mobile Suica and Mobile PASMO starting in the fall of 2026. It builds on […]
Mobile Transit
The Different expansion strategies of Suica and ICOCA
Sometimes there are advantages in being late to market. JR East Suica and JR West ICOCA are following different regional service expansion strategies with JR West leveraging their late arrival […]
Mobile Payments
Kyodo ‘exclusive’ report claims some old FeliCa chips are vulnerable
The Kyodo News agency published a report on August 28 claiming that some types of FeliCa chips shipped before 2017 are vulnerable and may be tampered with for certain operations. […]
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JRE POINT Beginners Guide
A guide to setup and use JRE POINT for Apple Pay Suica and JR East View Card