Originally Posted by
bocastephen
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.
Well, the website says it can be recharged at a konbini (Lawson/FamilyMart/7-Eleven/etc), so cash wouldn't be an issue. No good for manufactured spend, though, if it's like the other special-purpose things that you can't pay for with credit or debit at a konbini. Also, unlike my old Edy card, this would only work to earn me ANA miles at merchants that take Visa unless I switch to a Japanese phone.