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• 倍金萬
• 2019/02/02 (Sat) 09:50
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Another Japanese cashless topic.

"Prime Minister buys big toro ・ bouquet of flowers … with cashless payment"

The headline in the online reading of the Daily Yomiuri discusses cashless, but I have a feeling that why now ！? Of course, national retailers and service providers take credit cards, but most of them still only take cash as far as individual-level retailers are concerned. Even souvenir shops in local airports and major train stations do not take credit cards.

Also, the biggest cash-only shops are JR and private railway companies, which do not accept credit cards at all, and as you know, you have to buy an IC card such as Suica with *cash* to go through the automatic ticket gates. Even though this is unavoidable due to the structure of the ticket gate, when traveling in Japan, where most of the travel is by train, the 5,000 yen bill or 10,000 yen bill is easily blown away by purchasing or recharging a Suica card.

As mentioned in this article, foreign travelers who thought Japan was at the cutting edge of technology in the world are more or less baffled by the fact that too many places only accept cash.

• ルーシー３
• 2019/02/03 (Sun) 11:01
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JR still doesn't accept credit cards ？ ！ I didn't know that ！

I heard that you can buy goods with Suica etc. and I thought it was very convenient, but

"Buy IC cards like Suica etc. with *cash*",
this is a masterpiece! This is a masterpiece ～ ！ ！

My mother is also afraid to use credit cards （ because she is afraid of getting scammed ）. she doesn't want to use it.

Japan is still far away from going cashless ～.

• 技巧派
• 2019/02/03 (Sun) 11:52
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It was the end of last year, but credit cards were normally accepted at ticket machines.
I wonder if things are changing for the Olympics ？

https://www.jr-odekake.net/railroad/midori/ticket/

But buying a ticket every time I want to take a train is also troublesome.
I issued Suica by credit card at Midori-no-madoguchi.

• 倍金萬
• 2019/02/03 (Sun) 12:15
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Lucy3,

＞ JR still doesn't accept credit cards ？

There are JR ticket machines that accept credit cards, but only at major JR stations. Suica cards can only be purchased and recharged at these special machines, which do not take credit cards.

Once when I went to Japan last year, I tried to buy a ticket from a ticket machine that accepts credit cards because the train fare was over 1,000 yen per person, but the machine would not work unless I put in my 4-digit PIN. I could not buy anything with my credit card because I did not need to put in my PIN when shopping in Japan and I could not remember my PIN.

Ticket vending machines that accept credit cards look like this.

https://www.japan-sake-mileage.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/20161127224137.jpg


About 10 years ago, I remember Last year, JR Travel Center at JR Narita Airport station had a long queue of foreign tourists who wanted to buy JR Pass, and there was another manned counter selling N'EX and other tickets. I got in line there and bought a Suica card.

I asked if they take credit cards at that time, and they replied "No". I asked if they do at the Midori-no-madoguchi over there, but they said they don't take them there either.

Certainly in Japan, there are still many people who do not like to pay by card because of the frequent occurrence of touch fraud with cash cards. Also, IC cards such as Suica are very popular because they can be used for normal purchases unlike here, but all IC cards require a certain amount of money to be deposited in advance just like a debit card, which is not the same as a credit card where not even a penny is in the account and the card can be used up to the designated limit. This is different from credit cards, which allow you to spend more and more money up to a specified limit even if you don't have a penny in your account.

• 最新都市上海
• 2019/02/03 (Sun) 12:24
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Asian countries are also going cashless, and some stores in China have recently started to have no cash registers that allow customers to leave the store immediately with their merchandise.

I wonder if the reason why cashless shopping is slow to take off in Japan is because of the large percentage of the elderly population - ？.