JR East has released the Welcome Suica Mobile app for overseas visitors to Japan on Thursday, March 6, 2025. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: ...

Travel in Japan is about to get easier thanks to the launch of the Welcome Suica app, scheduled to debut March 6. Developed by JR East, also known as the East Japan Railway Company, iOS users will be ...

The launch of the Suica Mobile app for iOS is a game-changer for Singaporeans travelling to Japan. It eliminates the need for ...

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 ...

Currently, passengers must press their Suica cards at automatic ticket gates to enter and exit stations. Yoichi Kise, the president of JR East, said at a news conference that day that the company ...

And one key railway in Japan has so far shown no interest in joining the system. Prepaid IC cards, such as Suica and Pasmo, are widely used at stations. But the new credit-card gates allow ...