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Re:Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:41PM (#20238119)
Were you using some minor bus company? To a first approximation, all Japanese IC cards are compatible these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica#Interoperation

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Re:Sony launches a taxi-hailing app in Tokyo by munmaek on Thursday June 20, 2019 @11:24PM (#20239638)
Actually on second thought, this happened in Fukuoka, not Osaka. In Osaka I was able to take the metro with Suica.

I ended up carrying around cash and change anyway since a lot of places in Tokyo were still cash only.

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