Originally Posted by
pesos
just wanted to share that I discovered that while (as previously discussed) there are many terminals in restaurants and other shops that have the Apple Pay logo/sticker yet fail to actually work when the staff selects Apple Pay as the payment method - oddly enough it will actually work if they select “credit card” as the payment method and then you place your phone/watch on the terminal. Have verified this at 7 or 8 places so far so I assume it has to do with the backend system used.
Because Apple Pay is just a branding of the service Apple offers on their devices, the actual underlying mechanism is still the good ol' EMV Contactless as far as credit card is concerned.
Thus when you are at the checkout line in Japan, you should say カード (card, pronounced car-do) or タッチ (touch, pronounced ta-chi) and the cashier will select the corresponding option on their end. Then you just tap your phone.