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If you are a foreigner and not having a international driving license, 70% of the time you have to travel by train in Japan because they are more convenient and fast.
No sooner I arrived Japan, within first 12 hours, I ended up having to ride dreadful Japanese train all by myself and I must say that it was amazing. With time, I began to ride more and more and the dreadful challenge went to being pretty mundane. Almost 2 months passed, I was using my little tickets (which I used to buy) to travel between 2 stations. Conversely, I would see that many Japanese people use some type of wizardry to travel by train as they touch or wave their hand at the ticket gate and go right through.
They weren’t buying tickets always as I do which was much easier than my method.
It turned out that Japanese commuters use special cards created by Japan Rail (JR) to make train rides much simpler. These special cards are called PASMO or SUICA cards. You can make your own cards at the station and charge them with some X amount of money, isn’t it so easy??
Additionally, these PASMO or SUICA cards can also be used to buy stuffs at the convenient store within the stations; they can be used as flotation devices, as a razor, as shuriken etc.
No sooner I arrived Japan, within first 12 hours, I ended up having to ride dreadful Japanese train all by myself and I must say that it was amazing. With time, I began to ride more and more and the dreadful challenge went to being pretty mundane. Almost 2 months passed, I was using my little tickets (which I used to buy) to travel between 2 stations. Conversely, I would see that many Japanese people use some type of wizardry to travel by train as they touch or wave their hand at the ticket gate and go right through.
They weren’t buying tickets always as I do which was much easier than my method.
It turned out that Japanese commuters use special cards created by Japan Rail (JR) to make train rides much simpler. These special cards are called PASMO or SUICA cards. You can make your own cards at the station and charge them with some X amount of money, isn’t it so easy??
Additionally, these PASMO or SUICA cards can also be used to buy stuffs at the convenient store within the stations; they can be used as flotation devices, as a razor, as shuriken etc.
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