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Article: JR east launches its suica system in Tokyo. (Contactless Smart Cards).
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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JR East, Japan, has launched its new Suica contactless smart card ticketing system, based on an integrated management package developed by Hitachi, Japan. Suica has been installed initially in the Tokyo region at a cost of about $US 400 million.
THE first phase of JR East's Super Urban Intelligent Card (Suica) system covers 424 JR East stations within a 100km radius of Tokyo, and it has involved installing 3100 gates and 1000 ticket machines. Four million Suica season ticket passes are being issued, plus up to a million stored fare cards, and these are expected to generate more than 16 million transactions per day.
Suica was launched throughout the Tokyo ...