Eleven railway operators in Japan’s Tokyo metropolitan area have begun studying interoperability for postpaid travel services using contactless tap payments with credit cards and similar methods.
The parties are Odakyu Electric Railway, Odakyu Hakone, Keio Corporation, Keikyu Corporation, Sagami Railway (Sotetsu), Seibu Railway, Tokyu Corporation, Tokyo Metro, the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (Toei), Tobu Railway, and Yokohama Minatomirai Railway, together with OMRON Social Solutions, Sumitomo Mitsui Card, JCB, and QUADRAC.
To enable riders to transfer seamlessly across companies, the parties have signed a joint business agreement, and the 11 operators together with OMRON Social Solutions have begun developing a new fare-calculation system. By linking this fare-calculation system with “stera transit,” a public-transport solution provided by Sumitomo Mitsui Card, and “Q-move,” a SaaS platform provided by QUADRAC, they aim to realize mutual acceptance of postpaid tap-to-pay services across the Tokyo metropolitan area. Service launch is targeted from spring 2026 onward.
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