Originally Posted by
jamar
Ah, when I saw on the webpage that a passport was one of the accepted forms of ID, I was wondering whether a foreign one would be OK or not. Sounds like it won't be, then?
Kind of unfortunate. In the past I had an Edy-enabled mileage card- deposit cash, spend at Edy-accepting merchants that don't take credit, earn miles, repeat. Then it stopped working, and I found out that ANA no longer issues new mileage cards with Edy, so if I don't have a phone that supports Mobile Edy (like an iPhone), I can't earn miles that way anymore.
The other issue may be the card can't be recharged with a foreign credit or debit card, limiting its usefulness for manufactured spend, or any use by a non-Japanese resident who does not have a Japanese credit card.