# Pasmo

> Source: https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/pasmo
> research date 2026-05-31 · extracted at 2026-10-07
> Publisher: Barcoder — encyclopedia of QR, barcode and payment-code standards

Specifications:
- [Pasmo — official](https://www.pasmo.co.jp/)

## 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** <sup>[1][1], [Japan report](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/payments/JP)</sup>.

## 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](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/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](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/paypay) (PayPay; SoftBank + LY Corporation JV; Japan's largest mobile wallet by users + transactions; ~65M+ Japanese users) + [LINE Pay](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/line-pay) (LINE Pay; LINE mobile wallet) + [d払い (d Barai)](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/d-barai) (d払い d Barai NTT Docomo Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + [au PAY](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/au-pay) (au PAY KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + [Rakuten Pay](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/rakuten-pay) (Rakuten Pay; Rakuten Japanese mobile wallet) + [MerPay](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/wallets/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** <sup>[1][1], [2][2]</sup>.

## Sources

[1]: https://www.pasmo.co.jp/ "Pasmo — official"
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASMO "PASMO — Wikipedia"
[jp-cro]: https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/payments/JP

- [1] [Pasmo — official][1]
- [2] [PASMO — Wikipedia][2]
- <sup>[Japan report](https://docs.barcoder.ai/docs/payments/JP)</sup> In-corpus: `reports/countries/JP-japan.md`

## Source

Biography extracted from [pasmo.md](https://docs.barcoder.ai/source/wallets/pasmo). See `matrix.md` for standards-support matrix if present.