Originally Posted by
Visconti
Ah, I haven't actually tried it yet and have still been using the physical card. After my recent stint in Japan, for my purposes the physical card is fine and unless I misplace it, I see little value in using the digital card scheme. To each his/her own of course, but I'm good with just using the card.
I noticed you said you load your spare change onto your physical IC card. I've observed over a few different trips across a few years, I found myself using a digital card (CC or Suica) a lot more at convenience and department stores. This reduced the amount of 1, 5, 10 yen coins I used to end up with, even after I gained the of habit of paying over to reduce returned coinage. Plus I use a
digital Ponta card in the same Lawson combini transaction to keep Jalan.net (travel) points from JP hotel bookings active. I would guess transit IC reload machines still take 5 yen but 1 yen sort of just has to be spent down. Fortunately some combini and grocery store payment coin slots still take 1 yen
https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/c...n_1_yen_coins/
My daily home life is mostly cashless, too. As you say, to each his/her own.