JR East will test a new station-based "Shinkansen e-Ticket Purchase Machine" at Omiya and Utsunomiya. 🚄🎫
The machine is designed to let passengers buy a Shinkansen e-ticket in as little as one minute without installing an app, opening a website, or completing advance setup.
Riders choose a train, link the ticket to a Suica or other transport IC card, pay by credit card, and then board by touching that IC card at the Shinkansen gate.
The initial trial will cover JR East-area Shinkansen services, including the Tohoku, Akita, Yamagata, Joetsu, and Hokuriku Shinkansen between Tokyo and Joetsu-Myoko. It will sell one adult e-ticket per transaction.
A group of like 12 year old japanese boys walked past me and they all greeted me in english and one said "six seven" so I did the gesture and they all got really excited 😭😭😭