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As a tourist who just spent a week there, you either want to use your phone (though this is a bit harder with Android than iPhone AFAIK. All iPhones just work, only some Android devices do.) or get a passmo passport which works for the trains, but not anything else the IC cards work for.

I ignored the names and worked purely off the station numbers, knowing that my hotel was on the chiyoda line, and google maps.



Specifically for most Android devices, only Japan specific variants of each model carry the hardware necessary to work with Japanese IC cards. To my understanding the only exception are Pixels but those require some tinkering to get the hardware to actually work if they’re purchased outside of Japan.

iPhone and Apple Watch work OOTB since iPhone 8/X and Series 4.




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