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TOICA card.

How to use TOICA card in a ticket gate.

TOICA (トイカ, Toika) is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for JR Central railway network which was introduced in the Chūkyō Area (Greater Nagoya) of Japan on November 25, 2006.

The name is an acronym for Tōkai IC Card.^[1] Just like JR East's Suica or JR West's ICOCA, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony corporation known as FeliCa.

As of December 2007, 350,000 cards have been issued. In the Nagoya area, 50% of the riders, or 70% of the commuter pass holders, use the card.^[2]

Usable area

TOICA is currently accepted on JR Central lines in the following area:

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  Tōkaidō Main Line, between Kannami and Sekigahara
  
  • excluded, between Ōgaki and Mino-Akasaka, Atami and Kannami, Sekigahara and Maibara
    


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  Chūō Main Line, between Nagoya and Nakatsugawa
  


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  Kansai Main Line, between Nagoya and Yokkaichi
  


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  Taketoyo Line, (the whole line) between Ōbu and Taketoyo
  


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  Gotenba Line, between Gotenba and Numazu
  


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  Minobu Line, between Fuji and Nishi-Fujinomiya
  


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  Iida Line, between Toyohashi and Toyokawa
  


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  Takayama Main Line, between Gifu and Mino-Ōta
  


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  Taita Line, (the whole line) between Mino-Ōta and Tajimi
  

Integrated services

TOICA is also usable in Suica accepting area (Greater Tokyo Area, Sendai, and Niigata) and ICOCA accepting area (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto and Okayama-Hiroshima) and SUGOCA accepting area (Fukuoka-Saga). Suica (including Mobile Suica), ICOCA and SUGOCA are usable in TOICA accepting area as well. However, a card has to be used within a single area; for instance, it is not possible to use a card for the trip between Tokyo and Nagoya. The integrated service with Suica and ICOCA started in March 2008 and with SUGOCA in March 2011. Use in the PASMO, SUGOCA, or Kitaca service areas is valid since national integration of IC cards.

Smart card systems in Shizuoka Prefecture, namely LuLuCa (Shizuoka Railway) or NicePass (Enshu Railway) are yet to be integrated.

References

External links

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  (in Japanese) Official website by JR Central
  

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