Kyoto area transportation ?
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I wrote the port authority's cruise department (used MS/Win Translator). Seems the ship is scheduled to dock at Wharf/Pier 2 which is north and a little bit west of Nishi-Maizuru. No shuttle busses scheduled.
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PASMO and Suica are interchangeable in the Tokyo-Yokohama-Chiba metropolitan area, but originally, Suica was the JR-only card, and PASMO was the private railroad/subway-only card. I don't remember exactly when they became interchangeable, but their origins may have something to do with why a PASMO is not valid in Kyoto.
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PASMO and Suica are interchangeable in the Tokyo-Yokohama-Chiba metropolitan area, but originally, Suica was the JR-only card, and PASMO was the private railroad/subway-only card. I don't remember exactly when they became interchangeable, but their origins may have something to do with why a PASMO is not valid in Kyoto.
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A PASMO is valid in Kyoto (and just about everywhere else). All of the Japanese IC cards (Suica, PASMO, ICOCA, etc.) are interchangeable and have been since about 2013. However, if you want to load a virtual IC card in Apple Wallet (and top it up via Apple Pay) it has to be a Suica as none of the other variants is currently supported.
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Looks like that there are a few transit companies in Okinawa, Iwasaki, Kagoshima, Toyama, Utsunomiya, Asahikawa, and Hokkaido whose systems don't yet interoperate with the major IC cards.
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