Despite the wobbly state of Apple Pay Suica card UI design in iOS 12.2 and iOS 12.3, real world Express Transit performance continues to improve. NFC performance is a very […]
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Apple Pay Express Transit Comes to America with HOP and Ventra
The October 2016 launch of Apple Pay Suica in Japan was an important one with several ‘firsts’: FeliCa (the Ferrari of NFC) was the first non-EMV contactless payment NFC technology […]
Mobile Transit
Singapore TransitLink Goes EMV
Japanese media reports that Singapore TransitLink has gone all in with EMV contactless for transit with the SimpleGo program starting today, April 4. Mastercard is the first credit/debit card approved […]
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Cloud Suica
You might think that JR East has installed Suica gates in every station but this is not the case: as of 2018 Suica is installed in roughly half of JR […]
Cool Japan - Transit
Lost and Found
I was not familiar with Tile but after reading Twitter user Ken’s lost and found on a Japanese train story, I’m intrigued, though I do agree that the community aspect […]
Apple Pay Suica - Suica - Transit
JR East Reserve Seat Ticket Machines Going Cashless
2019 looks to be a year of change and going cashless. JR East is swapping out old reserve seat ticket machines with new ones that only take credit cards and […]