Recharge and Go
SUICA is the popular "touch and go" RFID train pass/prepaid train ticket in Japan. I use the prepaid SUICA, so everytime I use up all the amount stored in the card I have to use a ticketing machine to add more money on it. This may change soon. JR East is introducing a service that allow some passengers to automatically recharge SUICA when they go through a ticket gate. Passengers will be able to reconfigure the default settings with SUICA using ATM machines -- when the cards should be recharged, how much, etc.
Posted by konomi at July 11, 2006 08:14 AM | TrackBack