Contactless payment Suica cards hit a 20 million milestone

The railway company JR East has started issuing contactless rail pass cards dubbed Suica in November of 2001. This month Suica cards hit a 20 million milestone. This number doesn’t include mobile Suica memberships, which accounted for 430,000 phones with built-in FeliCa chips in March. JR East equipped its 2,127 train stations with Suica-compatible turnstiles. Nowadays, Suica cards (16,410,000) can also be used as electronic money to buy goods at about 22,150 shops in train stations in the Kanto area and around 7,000 online stores accept Suica cards as well.