Pasmo

Overview

Pasmo is Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card + PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro + Tokyu + Keio + Odakyu + Seibu + Tobu + Keisei + Sotetsu + Toei + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica + ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS [1, jp-cro].

History

Mar 18 2007 — Pasmo launched by PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro + Tokyu + Keio + Odakyu + Seibu + Tobu + Keisei + Sotetsu + Toei + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators as Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card distinctive Japanese transit IC card heritage.

Mar 18 2007 — Pasmo + Suica interoperability launched + Tokyo Metropolitan + JR East cross-card transit + retail compatibility.

Oct 2020 — Mobile Pasmo launched via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Pasmo (Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card; PASMO Co Ltd consortium parent).

Major shareholders: PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metro (Tokyo Metropolitan Government) + Tokyu Corporation + Keio Corporation + Odakyu Electric Railway + Seibu Railway + Tobu Railway + Keisei Electric Railway + Sotetsu Holdings + Tokyo Toei (Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation) + other Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators.

Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ + Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

Technical integration

Pasmo physical FeliCa contactless smart card + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS (iOS + Android; ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards) + Pasmo retail POS network across Japan; JP Zengin + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica.

Implementations & partners

Interoperable Japanese transit IC card standards: [[suica]] (Suica JR East Japanese transit + retail prepaid card; ~100M+ Japanese Suica cards; Japan's largest transit + retail prepaid IC card by issuance) + [[icoca]] (ICOCA JR West Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + [[toica]] (TOICA JR Central Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + [[sugoca]] (SUGOCA JR Kyushu Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + [[kitaca]] (Kitaca JR Hokkaido Japanese transit + retail prepaid card) + [[manaca]] (manaca Nagoya transit + retail prepaid card) + [[pitapa]] (PiTaPa Kansai transit + retail prepaid card) + [[nimoca]] (nimoca Nishitetsu Kyushu transit + retail prepaid card).

Major Japanese mobile wallet + payments competitors: [[paypay]] (PayPay; SoftBank + LY Corporation JV; Japan's largest mobile wallet by users + transactions; ~65M+ Japanese users) + [[line-pay]] (LINE Pay; LINE mobile wallet) + [[d-barai]] (d払い d Barai NTT Docomo Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + [[au-pay]] (au PAY KDDI Japanese telecom mobile wallet) + [[rakuten-pay]] (Rakuten Pay; Rakuten Japanese mobile wallet) + [[merpay]] (MerPay Mercari Japanese mobile wallet).

Regulators: FSA Japan + BoJ + Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

Status

Active, Tokyo Metropolitan transit + retail prepaid IC card + PASMO Co Ltd consortium of Tokyo Metropolitan private rail + bus operators + FeliCa contactless smart card technology + interoperable with Suica + ~60M+ Japanese Pasmo cards + Mobile Pasmo via Apple Pay + Google Pay + Wear OS [1, 2].

Sources

• 1 Pasmo — official
• 2 PASMO — Wikipedia
• jp-cro In-corpus: reports/countries/JP-japan.md

Source

Biography extracted from pasmo.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.