Edit: this article explains it: https://atadistance.net/2023/03/15/troubleshooting-apple-pay... My Visa is actually listed as one of those which still work ("Some VISA debit cards work for adding money to Suica (DKB, Hyundai Zero, Revolut works depending on the country of the account, no other issuers confirmed).")
Not in Japan anymore otherwise I would have tried again.
This article, linked to from a sibling comment here, seems to indicate it shouldn't work for you :) https://atadistance.net/2023/07/15/foreign-visa-cards-blocke...
edit: ha. you read the same article better than I did.
Is it known whether this foreign-VISA situation is supposed to resolve and get fixed eventually? The article didn't mention whether the current situation is on purpose or an error. I fear that if this is on purpose it might actually get worse and other foreign cards eventually stop working as well.
>Not in Japan anymore otherwise I would have tried again.
I'm neither. Does this change anything? I could charge from home directly in ¥. But the card is from DKB so expected to work.
You can charge up the iphone suica balance using cash in the machines... a bit weird but that's what I did.
Getting back home first thing I did was get a mastercard to complement my visa, as it seems EU mastercards still works to charge Suica.
It would be interesting to read about why this happened, it feels like there are interesting payment processing details to learn from it :)