Comments on: Quicker payments is electronic cash’s main attraction in Japan http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/06/13/quicker-payments-is-electronic-cashs-main-attraction-in-japan/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: dokool http://whatjapanthinks.com/2009/06/13/quicker-payments-is-electronic-cashs-main-attraction-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-168205 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:30:18 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=2126#comment-168205 SUICA is the greatest thing in the world. Two months ago I went from Koshigaya to a concert in Kumagaya (both in Saitama) and had to transfer to a line… the Chichibu line, I think it was called? But the important thing was that this was probably the one train line in Kanto that wasn’t equipped for SUICA, so everyone *had* to buy a ticket. The concept was just so foreign.

I do look forward to making SUICA standard nation-wide, right now it only works on everything in Tokyo + JR lines everywhere, but it’d be nice when I visit Osaka to not have to buy tickets every time I use the Kintetsu line or whatnot.

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