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On March 13, 2010, SUGOCA began interoperation with Nishitetsu's nimoca, Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau's Hayakaken, and JR East's Suica. [1] On March 5, 2011, in a reciprocal agreement with JR Central and JR West , SUGOCA became usable in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto , Okayama - Hiroshima and Nagoya metropolitan areas. [ 2 ]
The East Japan Railway Company [10] is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST [11] or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon, lit. ' ’’JR East Japan’’ ') in Japanese.
Suica (Japanese: スイカ, romanized: Suika) is a prepaid rechargeable contactless smart card and electronic money system used as a fare card on train lines and other public transport systems in Japan, launched on November 18, 2001, by JR East.
For its services in the Greater Tokyo Area, JR East defines the Tokyo Suburban Area(Japanese: 東京近郊区間) for fare calculation purposes, roughly correlating with the Suica coverage area (as of 2012.03.17).
The term "Tōkaidō Main Line" is largely a holdover from pre-Shinkansen days; now various portions of the line have different names which are officially used by JR East, JR Central, and JR West. Today, the only daily passenger train that travels the entire length of the line is the combined Sunrise Izumo/Sunrise Seto service which runs ...
JR logotype JR Group service regions. The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the JR Group (Jeiāru Gurūpu) or simply JR, is a group of railway companies in Japan that underwent division and privatization [1] of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.
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