Some people collect baseball cards, other people collect Suica cards. Most of the Suica cards pictured here are commemoration limited edition Suica from the 2013 Transit IC interoperability startup. The […]
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Tokyo Metro joins Smart Charge bin brigades
Tokyo Metro has followed the JR East lead and joined the recharge bin brigade. Starting October 2 Smart Charge Kiosk machines are being installed at major stations along the Tokyo Metro […]
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Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls
Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Transit Platforms >Contactless Payment Turf Wars: PiTaPa Pitfalls Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Why Oyster is missing from mobile Contactless Payment Turf Wars: Tapping the potential of […]
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JR East and Sony creating ‘Super Suica’ card
JR East and Sony announced co-development of a ‘national’ super Suica card that will replace local Japanese transit card variations such as ICOCA, TOICA, SUGOCA, Kitaca, PASMO, manaca, Nimoca, Hayaken and others […]
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Important Suica App update due October 10
JR East announced an important Suica App update that will drop immediately after the early morning Mobile Suica maintenance window that ends 5:30 am JST. The new version is Suica […]
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Apple Pay Suica performance improvements coming with iOS 12.1 update
Good news for Apple Pay Suica users: word coming down Apple developer channels is that iOS 12.1 contains Apple Pay Suica fixes and performance improvements. Apple Pay Suica users report […]