Visa Contactless Payments” and “QR Codes” Will Start at Ticket Gates at Nankai Railways from Spring, 2021
Dec.24th, 2020 Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co., Ltd. QUADRAC Co., Ltd. Visa World Wide Japan Co., Ltd. Verification tests of “Visa Contactless payments” and “QR codes” will start at ticket gates at Nankai Railways from Spring, 2021 Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Osaka city, Osaka, CEO: Teruhiko Achikita), Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato ward, Tokyo, CEO: Yukihiko Ohnishi), QUADRAC Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato ward, Tokyo, CEO: Masayuki Takada) and Visa World Wide Japan Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, CEO: Stephen Karpin) will start verification tests of entrance/exit by Visa Contactless payments and QR codes at some stations at Nankai Railways from spring, 2021. This is the first attempt in Japan to make entrance/exit possible at ticket gates at stations by Visa Contactless payments. Cashless payments have been keeping expanding thanks to inbound consumption and the Cashless restoration project. In the new normal with COVID-19, consumers are starting to pay attention to cashless payments, especially touchless payments more than ever. We expect that “Contactless payments” will rapidly become popular from now on, and it would become normal to see cashless payments being used by Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai. At the section of mobility, which is necessary in normal life, Visa Contactless payments are already normally used in many cities throughout the world to start with Europe. We believe that we can provide a more convenient and safe normal life in Japan too. During this verification test, we are planning to set ticket gates for Visa Contactless payments at some stations at Nankai Railways, which connect “Namba”, the center of South Osaka, “Kansai International Airport”, the entrance of the sky in Kansai, “Wakayama”, and the World Heritage “Koyasan”.
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