Getting around in Tokyo by Train: suica/pasmo card

Getting around in Tokyo by Train: suica/pasmo card

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In your trip in Tokyo, train will be your best buddy. Its cheap, fast, on time and dependable. If you are going to spend more than 1 week in Tokyo by train, you will need a card either Suica or Pasmo card. They could be used to go to any train, despite of different lines (Odakyu, Seibu, JR, etc)  or types (Tokyo metro subway or usual train). I shall describe the trains in Tokyo in other post. These cards even could be used like a debit card, to buy drinks/food in the station. In my trip in Tokyo, I used Suica. I dont think there is any big difference between Suica and Pasmo though.


Firstly
How to get the card: go find this pink booth in the station. The writing in the booth should be 'Buy new Suica/Pasmo card'. In every big station such as Tokyo station, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Akihabara, I think there should be one. I don't know if its available in Narita/Haneda too. It maybe is. 

The booth to buy the suica card

the interface

Choose the English menu, click on purchase new suica and follow the instruction. Then enter the money (usually the thousands: 1000, 2000,5000 or 10000) to the machine. The deposited money will be reduced each time you used it. The charge for each trip depends on how far is your journey. 

Tips: if you know that you'll be using same route for a long time, a month for instance, then you can also set it up at the destination/start of journey station. Sorry for this one I got my wonderful friend help me so, I don't know much. 

You can see the fee for trains when you use googlemap/navitime. 

If you only need to take once or twice, then you could use one time ticket. What you need to do is firstly you need to see the map, look for your current station location and your destination station. Then there should be fee written there. For this option, choose 'ticket' and insert the amount of money you need to go there, and then you will get a paper ticket. When you first come to the station entrance (make sure you enter the right entrance gate), and then put the card inside the machine, and don't forget to take it. The ticket will have a hole, like a punched hole, and you will need it to get out at the destination station. I find this wikihow on how to take trains in Tokyo is quite explaining.

Have a good trip! 


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Ikebukuro station, 2015. 



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