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Suica:

> Sales of JR East's Suica card (image of a penguin on the front) will be discontinued for the time being as of June 8 due to a worldwide semiconductor shortage. [1]

Welcome Suica (for short-term visits):

> Welcome Suica sales will be limited to the following for the time being from December 18th:

> * JR EAST Travel Service Center, Haneda Airport Terminal 3 Station

> * Welcome Suica exclusive vending machine, Tokyo Monorail Haneda Airport Line Haneda Airport Terminal 3 Station

> Please note that only one Welcome Suica will be sold per person.

> Please note that IC cards will not be sold at Narita Airport after the 18th. [2]

PASMO:

> The sale of blank PASMO has been temporarily suspended.

> The sale of Personalized PASMO has been temporarily suspended. [3]

PASMO PASSPORT (for short-term visits):

> The card is available for purchase at 21 locations. [4]

[1] https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/suica.html

[2] https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/welcomesuica/welcomesuica....

[3] https://www.pasmo.co.jp/visitors/en/normalpasmo/

[4] https://www.pasmo.co.jp/visitors/en/buy/



This is partly misleading and partly out of date: Welcome Suicas have been available at the airport throughput, and regular Suicas are available again at major JR East stations.


Thanks for the additional info. I didn’t intend to mislead; the quoted passages are straight off the Suica and PASMO websites, so they are only outdated insofar as those websites are outdated.




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