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IC Card

If you want to travel like a local, if you want to avoid the trouble of buying a ticket every time you take train or bus, if you want to avoid losing the ticket, you should buy an IC Card. What is IC Card? IC card is a prepaid transportation card and E-money card that contain an Integrated-circuit (IC) chip, allowing the user to pay transportation fares, make payment at most of the convenient stores, increasing number of restaurants and vending machines. There are more than ten different IC cards operate all around Japan. Although each card has it own corresponding railway, however since 2013 most of the cards are…