The Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, Sumitomo Mitsui Card, JCB, Visa Worldwide Japan, OMRON Social Solutions, Nippon Signal, and QUADRAC will work together to develop solutions for public transportation provided by Sumitomo Mitsui Card, including on the Toei Asakusa Line, by the end of this year. They will begin a demonstration experiment on ride services using cards (credit, debit, prepaid) that support touch payments using “Stera Transit” and smartphones equipped with the cards.
By using touch payments such as credit cards and debit cards, you can smoothly board trains using your touch payment-compatible card or a smartphone equipped with the same card, without having to charge your IC card or purchase a ticket. Become. In collaboration with Keikyu Corporation, which has mutual direct service with the Toei Asakusa Line, this will be the first time in the Tokyo metropolitan area that mutual use of credit card touch payments between operators will be possible.
For example, if a foreign visitor to Japan using Haneda Airport takes a Keikyu train and gets off at a Toei subway station, he or she can get on and off by simply touching his or her credit card on the automatic ticket gate.