Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to Implement Fully Cashless Buses on 29 Routes

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has selected 29 routes operated by 18 businesses for the demonstration operation of fully cashless buses.

Selected routes include Hokuriku Railroad’s Kanazawa Castle Town Circulation Bus, Keio Bus’s Ajinomoto Stadium routes, Tokyo BRT, Odakyu Highway Bus’s Haneda Airport Terminal 3 – Hakone Togen-dai line, Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus’s Haneda Connection line, Meitetsu Bus’s Fushimi-Sakai – Chubu International Airport line, Ube City Transportation Bureau’s Yamaguchi Ube Airport – Shin-Yamaguchi Station line, and Nishi-Nippon Railroad’s Hakata Station – Fukuoka Airport line.

Routes were selected based on being limited-use, having a high volume of foreign tourists or regular passengers, high cashless transaction rates, or those conducting other demonstrations such as automated driving alongside. Improvements in management and reduction of burdens on bus operators are expected. The initiative will start as early as November 1.