TOICA

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TOICA is JR Central’s Japanese rechargeable transport card, with stored value also used at participating merchants. A fare or purchase reduces the prepaid balance, while the card’s deposit is not available to spend and mobile conversion or transport-pass variants carry separate rules.

Use cases:
Initiation:
Users
1.9M
Markets
1
TPV
$118M
Transactions
45M

Estimated Monthly Usage, Aurato Research, November 2026

Historical trends

Capabilities

Payments can be initiated using NFC; the method does not support full payment refunds. Customers do not need a local bank account. Payments can connect across different schemes or rails; payments can use JPY as a funding currency.

Markets

Schemes

PSPs

No PSP implementations have been mapped for this method yet.

Compliance

Regulator
Bank of Japan

Standards