On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Paul Lester wrote:
> In a convenience store in Shibuya I think I saw a sign
> recommending you to go to the SUICA place (JR station guy) and get
> an Edy enabled SUICA card so you can use it for both buying at the
> convenience store and also for your train pass. Is this true? Or did I
> just read it too fast? If this is the case it looks like Edy and Suica
> are merging their tech together.
It's the same technology. The Felica cards have a chip on it that runs
Java; you download programs to the chip, and it runs them.
> I pretty sure all the data on which stations you use are kept on
> your SUICA card and known by JR.
The information is kept on the card; you can print it out at any Suica
machine. However, I don't know that JR keeps track of this as well.
> Kaisuiken on the other hand gives you lots of free rides and have no
> deposit required.
I wouldn't call it exactly "lots" of free rides; it's only every
eleventh ride, isn't it? And you can only use them between stations that
cost exactly what you paid on the ticket. (Well, or cost less, but then
you're spending more than you need to.)
cjs
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Received on Tue Jun 29 10:49:13 2004