Wallets/pasmo
Pasmo
0 standards supported
Overview
Pasmo is Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card + PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro + Tokyu + Keio + Odakyu + Seibu + Tobu + Keisei + Sotetsu + Toei + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica + ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS 1, Japan report.
History
Mar 18 2007 — Pasmo launched by PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro + Tokyu + Keio + Odakyu + Seibu + Tobu + Keisei + Sotetsu + Toei + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators as Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card distinctive Japanese transit IC card heritage.
Mar 18 2007 — Pasmo + Suica interoperability launched + Tokyo Metropolitan + JR East cross-card transit + retail compatibility.
Oct 2020 — Mobile Pasmo launched via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS.
Ownership & operator
Operating entity: Pasmo (Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card; PASMO Co Ltd consortium parent).
Major shareholders: PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) + Tokyu Corporation + Keio Corporation + Odakyu Electric Railway + Seibu Railway + Tobu Railway + Keisei Electric Railway + Sotetsu Holdings + Tokyo Toei (Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation) + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators.
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ + Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Technical integration
Pasmo physical FeliCa contactless smart card + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS (iOS + Android; ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards) + Pasmo retail POS network across Japan; JP Zengin + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica.
Implementations & partners
Interoperable Japanese transit IC card standards: Suica (Suica JR East Japanese transit + retail prepaid card; ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards; Japan's largest transit + retail prepaid IC card by issuance) + ICOCA (ICOCA JR West Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + TOICA (TOICA JR Central Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + SUGOCA (SUGOCA JR Kyushu Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + Kitaca (Kitaca JR Hokkaido Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + manaca (manaca Nagoya transit + retail prepaid card) + PiTaPa (PiTaPa Kansai transit + retail prepaid card) + nimoca (nimoca Nishitetsu Kyushu transit + retail prepaid card).
Major Japanese mobile wallet + payments competitors: PayPay (PayPay; SoftBank + LY Corporation JV; Japan's largest mobile wallet by users + transactions; ~65M+ Japanese users) + LINE Pay (LINE Pay; LINE mobile wallet) + d払い (d Barai) (d払い d Barai NTT Docomo Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + au PAY (au PAY KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + Rakuten Pay (Rakuten Pay; Rakuten Japanese mobile wallet) + MerPay (MerPay Mercari Japanese mobile wallet).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ + Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Status
Active, Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card + PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica + ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS 1, 2.
Sources
- 1 Pasmo — official
- 2 PASMO — Wikipedia
- Japan report In-corpus:
reports/countries/JP-japan.md
Source
Biography extracted from pasmo.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.