When traveling to Japan independently, you must purchase a Watermelon Card, which will make your travel more convenient and save a certain amount of money. In addition to being used on the bus, the Watermelon Card can also be used in some stores, so let’s take a look at which stores they are. Prices and types of Suica Cards

There are many types of transportation cards in Japan. The most common ones in Tokyo are Suica (Water Melon Card) and Pasmo Card, while the most common ones in Kansai are Icoca Cards.

You can use Xigua Card for transportation in these places:

You can also pay with a Xigua Card with sufficient balance in stores with a Xigua Card logo:

About Xigua Card The introduction and use of the card will be explained in one go. There are a lot of detailed guides on the Internet. This is not what I want to focus on today. Search it. You can also visit the official website to learn more

Same as the Magic City Transportation Card, you can purchase a physical Watermelon Card. This year’s price is as follows:

Including a 500 yen deposit, you can buy it at multi-function ticket machines and JR ticket offices in major JR East stations.

Of course there is no shortage of all-purpose Taobao. Since sellers have to earn the cost of moving bricks, it is not much cheaper-but, especially when it is the first time to go to Japan, for the sake of convenience, they usually buy through Taobao. .

This money (deposit) can be saved; if you make good use of the current bank cashback activities, you may even get a discount.

Yes, just make good use of Apple Wallet.

Like transportation cards in Shanghai and other places, the Xigua Card also supports Apple’s “Wallet” and supported models:

An iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus (model number A1779) purchased in Japan and A1785)

iPhone8 or iPhone8Plus

iPhoneX or later

There are two ways to add a Watermelon Card to "Wallet":

1. If you have a physical Suica card on hand, you can directly transfer the physical card (including balance) to Apple Wallet;

2. If you don’t have a physical card on hand, or want to apply for a new virtual card directly, After downloading the corresponding App from the AppStore, you can directly apply for a new Suica (virtual card) with Apple

Wallet.

Method 1 is relatively simple. It is similar to adding a transportation card to the "Wallet" in Shanghai (or similar other cities), but there are some key points in it. Let me briefly explain:

First, First make sure that iOS is the latest version and change the phone region setting to "Japan". If you do not set it, the Suica add option will not appear, but the language will remain Simplified Chinese after setting it - if you used Simplified Chinese before.

Second, during the adding process, when this interface appears, be sure to click "Transfer Balance from Existing Card" before completing the subsequent operations.

Why can't you directly select the specific amount and add it?

Because JR East currently only supports ApplePay payment methods other than UnionPay, including but not limited to V/M/A. If you want to add it directly here, you must have a card on hand that supports binding to Apple

Wallet or a card issued outside mainland China.

Finally, place the top of your iPhone against the middle of the watermelon card until the addition is successful. This step may take a few minutes.

After the addition is completed, the original physical Watermelon Card will be invalid, and the 500 yen deposit will be converted into the "wallet" balance. Purchasing process

Today we will focus on the second method, because: you don’t have to buy another physical card and get paid by second-rate dealers; or you don’t have to go to Japan and look for card-selling outlets everywhere. Well done, a waste of time.

You can operate it while sitting at home in China.

Before operating, please also make sure that the iOS is the latest version and the region setting of the mobile phone is changed to "Japan".

Then, open the AppStore, search for "Suica" and download it. Note that you download "Suica", not "SuicaEng" below, the latter is not suitable for us.

SuicaApp is actually equivalent to the "Shanghai Transportation Card" App in Shanghai. This is how I understand it.

Enter SuicaApp and click the "+" on the upper right or the button shown on the lower right.

Enter the interface shown below.

The top two items represent the transfer of new virtual Suica and physical Suica cards respectively (refer to the operation above for the latter).

Under the first item, there are three different types of Suica, namely registered type, fixed-term coupon (monthly pass) and bearer type.

Choose MySuica (registered), the other two are not suitable for us (domestic short-term tourists in Japan).

Click the button at the bottom to proceed to the next step. I won’t post pictures in this step to save everyone’s traffic. Just follow the following steps: Member login-Agree-Fill in information.

For member information, just fill in the information according to the following instructions

Line 1, Email, English half-width, there is no problem with domestic email in the actual test.

Line 2, account password, 8-20 half-width English digits, must be at least 2 types of uppercase letters, lowercase letters and numbers.

Line 3, enter the confirmation password again.

Line 4 is the newly applied Suica alias, which can be filled in or left blank.

Line 5, the full-width pinyin of the surname.

Line 6, the full-width pinyin of the name.

Lines 7 and 8 are for filling in your own kana pronunciation last name and kana pronunciation name respectively. The system does not verify the authenticity and does not affect subsequent credit card binding; if you are on the safe side, you can also use the following The website converted and copied your own name

In lines 9 and 10, the text is understandable, including birthday and gender.

Line 11 is Japan’s postal code. Just find a Japanese hotel’s postal code and fill it in, such as 107-6245 at the Ritz in Tokyo.

Line 12, 11-digit mobile phone number, just fill in the 11-digit domestic mobile phone number, but do not fill in 11 same digits.

The switch after line 12 indicates whether you are willing to accept advertising emails. You can choose freely; lines 13 and 14 are for setting security questions and passwords. Click on the blank space of line 13 to see the presets. question; if you don’t know how to fill in line 14, you can directly answer it with pure numbers. Remember to take a screenshot and save it after filling it out.

At the bottom is the most important thing - fill in your credit card information.

Enter the credit card account number and validity period. The information must be consistent with what you filled in before. After filling in, click "Next" in the upper right corner. You will be asked to enter the 3-digit CVV2 security verification code on the back of the credit card (AE's is on the front) 4 digits), that’s it.

Currently, the domestically issued credit cards that can be successfully bound by personal testing include: China Merchants Bank JCB single standard, Visa all-currency white, Master all-currency black, AE

Blue; Bank of China’s portrait cat JCB Single standard, 2072 World Extreme single standard; Ping An Centurion single standard. Friends who are interested can verify it themselves.

If the information verification is incorrect, you cannot continue; otherwise, you will jump to the next interface and select the initial recharge amount - there is no deposit for virtual Suica, and you can use it as much as you recharge.

Complete the recharge.

After the system deducts the payment, wait 5-10 seconds and the phone will jump from SuicaApp to AppleWallet.

Click Continue - Next - Agree. If the network is smooth, the newly opened virtual Suica will show that the addition was successful within 1 minute.

If you need to recharge Suica, you can enter Suica

App, click the "Deposit" button at the bottom of the homepage, select the amount you want to recharge, and then select the button with the credit card's last number on the left , click Deposit, and you can recharge immediately.

Looking at the lot of information, in fact, after completing the first binding of the card, recharging is quite simple.