After posting about the surprise rise of Mobile Suica payment use it occurred to me that I failed to take the corporate transit angle into consideration. COVID has been hard on transit companies in many ways, especially now that there is much less need for commuter passes. But it has […]
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JR East Ticketless Touch and Go Shinkansen expands system wide
Another day, another Suica related announcement. JR East ticketless Touch and Go Shinkansen service for Suica and other compatible Transit IC cards will be expanded to include all JR East Shinkansen lines in March 2021. Touch and Go differs from Eki-Net Shinkansen eTickets in that Touch and Go uses the […]
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JR East and Apple Quietly Fix a Suica Weakness
One of neat things about Apple Pay Suica is how easy it is to add, delete and migrate Suica cards to different iPhones. iCloud and Mobile Suica keep the Suica card information and balance safe and secure no matter what device it’s on. There was one weakness however: the Suica […]