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Touch Screen Vending

This acure Shibuya station vending machine by the JR East Water Business Co. is interesting on a number of levels: it’s using a touch screen …
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The Point of Sale

If there’s one advantage to a couple of spare hours in Tokyo – it’s pulling up a seat in the under-the-arches back-of-Daikanyama Dexee Diner, and …
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Territories Expanded

06 Nov 2010
In: Future Perfect, Shibuya, back of
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The interesting thing here is not that you can pay for vending machine goods with your travel card; or that you can check the balance …
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Contactless Confusion

30 Dec 2008
In: Future Perfect, Shinagawa
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A feature of contactless cards is the ability to authenticate (pass through ticket barriers/make payments/…) without removing the card from the wallet or purse. Except that …
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Subtle Changes in Behaviour

11 Oct 2007
In: Tokyo
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For the Pasmo contact-less travel card used around Tokyo. From their blurb: “Do not stick labels or anything similar on the card, as this may …
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