Whereas travelers have a 28-day window to use a physical Suica card, the app’s 180-day timeframe gives long-term visitors more leeway. Travelers should know that depending on their home country ...

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 ...