TOKYO — U.S. troops and other commuters in Japan will soon be able to purchase unregistered Suica and Pasmo smart cards again, following a nearly two-year pause due to a global semiconductor ...

The launch of the Welcome Suica mobile app on March 6, 2025, promises to simplify travel in Japan with digital payments, ...

Charging your Mobile Suica or Pasmo in Japan is easy. Whether you’re topping up for a train ride or grabbing a snack from a vending machine, there are several ways to recharge your card. ・Train ...

After a hiatus of nearly two years, the providers of Tokyo’s two main IC transport cards – Pasmo and Suica – will finally resume sales of unregistered prepaid cards. Registered cards were ...

Whether you’re traveling in Japan or living in the country, one of the most useful things to have in your wallet is a Suica or Pasmo card. These prepaid cards originally started out as methods for ...

You can buy a refillable card to ride the trains. I opted for a Pasmo card because it allows you to transfer between the two independently operated Metro and Toei lines. It can also be used on the ...

Sales of non-personalized Suica and Pasmo IC cards, which are used to pay for train fares and other payments in Japan, will resume in March. New issuance of Suica and Pasmo cards was suspended in ...

Suica cards sold by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and Pasmo cards from other railway and bus operators in the capital. These are interchangeable with IC cards issued in certain cities ...

Currently, visitors have to use ticket machines or buy physical transit cards with integrated circuit chips, such as Suica or Pasmo cards, when riding Japan's public transport. Sumitomo Mitsui's ...

Prepaid IC cards, such as Suica and Pasmo, are widely used at stations. But the new credit-card gates allow passengers to take trains without worrying about remaining balances. And they spare ...