Wallets/suica
Suica
0 standards supported
Overview
Suica is JR East Japan Railway Company TYO: 9020 Japanese rail transit + retail prepaid IC card + Japan's largest transit + retail prepaid IC card by issuance + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards + Mobile Suica via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS 1, Japan report.
History
Nov 18 2001 — Suica launched by JR East Japan Railway Company as Japanese rail transit + retail prepaid IC card using FeliCa contactless smart card technology by Sony distinctive Japanese transit IC card heritage.
Jan 2004 — Suica retail payments expansion beyond transit.
Jan 28 2006 — Mobile Suica launched as Japan's first NFC mobile wallet via Osaifu-Keitai FeliCa-enabled Japanese mobile handsets.
Oct 2016 — Suica via Apple Pay launched on iPhone 7 + Apple Watch Series 2 globally.
2020 — Suica via Google Pay launched on Android + Wear OS.
Ownership & operator
Operating entity: Suica (Japanese rail transit + retail prepaid IC card; JR East parent).
Major shareholders: East Japan Railway Company JR East (TYO: 9020; Japanese passenger rail operator).
Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ + Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Technical integration
Suica physical FeliCa contactless smart card + Mobile Suica via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS (iOS + Android; ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards) + Suica retail POS network across Japan; JP Zengin + FeliCa contactless smart card technology.
Implementations & partners
JR East parent: JR East (East Japan Railway Company JR East; TYO: 9020; Japanese passenger rail operator).
Interoperable Japanese transit IC card standards: Pasmo (Pasmo Tokyo Metropolitan Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + 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, JR East Japan Railway Company TYO:9020 Japanese rail transit + retail prepaid IC card + Japan's largest transit + retail prepaid IC card by issuance + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards + Mobile Suica via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS 1, 2.
Sources
- 1 Suica — official
- 2 Suica — Wikipedia
- Japan report In-corpus:
reports/countries/JP-japan.md
Source
Biography extracted from suica.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.