How to buy a (physical) PASMO and Suica

Update 2024/09/01: Sales of personalized Suica and PASMO has resumed, but this means you are not supposed to share your card, and refunding the card requires the person with the registered name to be present. For travelers, this can be inconvenient and therefore not recommended.

Even though the official sites and notices in stations are all trying to convince you that there is no way you can buy a PASMO and Suica right now, scaring all visitors away, there are still many ways you can buy one now.

Suica for Tourists: Welcome Suica

This is the officially recommended way, even though they are sold in just a few locations. Also, they expire after 28 days and you cannot refund the unused charged money inside, so I personally do not recommend this. For those working and studying, this is basically useless. You can check out their official sites for where you can buy them: Welcome Suica

Regular Suica: buy a 1-day pass

Even though the official website mentioned that only children and monthly pass Suica are still sold, 1-day passes can also be issued on a new Suica. So if your trip has a day that justifies using a one-day pass (e.g. if you live in the west side like Nakano, a round-trip to Kasai Rinkai Park is already worth the cost of the Tokunai Pass!), go to a black ticket machine (that sells monthly pass), and choose the option that issues a new Suica. Check the following video but choose the new Suica option instead!

After the one-day pass expires, you can load stored value into the card and use it like a normal Suica. You can go to a station staff and request that the writing on the card be erased too.

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Probably the only way to buy a regular PASMO: One-day pass

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買 PASMO 和 Suica(西瓜卡) 的方法

更新:2024年9月1日起雖然可以在所有售票機購買記名式 PASMO 及 Suica,但由於記名式IC卡原則上只限本人使用,對家人朋友之間可能會互相借卡的遊客來説可能不太方便。雖然從未見有職員檢查記名卡的持卡人身份,但仍然不建議冒險。此外,退卡時也需要本人的身份證護照等,不如無記名簡單。因此,本人仍然推薦以下方式購買。此外,本人已不再於日本居住,因此本文的更新頻率可能會減低,請同時參考其他資料。

雖然到處寫着 Suica 和 PASMO 停售的通告,對想去日本玩的遊客們很是嚇人,但是解決辦法還是有很多的。在本文我想總結一下已知的購買交通系IC卡的方法和已經失效的方法,其中購買 PASMO 的方法更是不見有人提起,而且昨天(2024年2月24日)親身測試成功!

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澳門輕軌的世界極品動態路線圖 - 有十年時間都無心改善

2019年通車的澳門輕軌氹仔線不知道大家搭過了沒有?從通車當天起就已經被人恥笑的,非車廂內如小畫家般的界面設計莫屬,被大陸的地鐵迷稱爲「ppt報站」,甚至見過真的用PowerPoint模擬出同樣效果的。

小學生電腦課應該都能設計出來的簡陋設計。圖片由維基媒體用戶LN9267拍攝,以CC BY-SA 4.0條款授權。

原本考慮到輕軌公司在2019年是剛成立,可能有其他更重要的工作而無暇兼顧這些小事(雖然明明可以讓港鐵澳門協助設計,港鐵澳門設計的各種標識和單張明顯好看很多)。但是現在已經又過了4年,其中還包括停運半年修復電纜和疫情時期極少人乘搭的兩年,甚至連延伸至媽閣站,必須更新系統的大好機會仍不肯改個稍爲好看一點點的設計(就算只是改個好看點的字體已經很棒了)。但是考慮到未來可能很快就要連通石排灣和橫琴站,可能到時候再大改,我又再忍了下來。

直到我今天無意中看到2012年輕軌1:1列車模型展覽,當中的界面設計竟然和現在的一模一樣以後,我是無法再忍下去了。

當年只是爲了示範而隨便設計個畫面固然沒有問題,但是相信沒有人認爲這樣子的設計是在正經的運營路線上是可以接受的吧?!

具體問題我就不說了,有點審美意識的一眼就已經能看出好幾個問題。

所以輕軌公司是要有多懶?反正我是忍不了了,就希望明年港鐵退場、兩線通車之前能請港鐵搞搞吧。。。