Originally Posted by
freecia
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.
Oh, hadn't realized this. So, it's similar to how the Octopus card in HK can be used with various shops & restaurants? If that's the case, I'll try to use my Suica card in a similar fashion, or would the feature only be available to the digital version?
Yeah, mostly cashless at home too, which for me is Norther CA. I don't even walk out with cash anymore, though in Tokyo, at least in my experiences, there still seem to be a fair number of cash only restaurants?