What is Tap to Ride?
This service allows you to ride trains using your contactless card (credit, debit, or prepaid) or device (e.g., smartphone) with a card set up.
- You can use cards with the four-waved contactless symbol; however, some exceptions exist, so please contact your card issuer for details.
Payment tools for Kintetsu Tap to Ride
Contactless cards (credit, debit, or prepaid) or smart devices with a card set up
■ Payment tools
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Contactless cards -
Smart devices
■ Accepted card brands
Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club, Discover, and UnionPay
- You can use cards with the four-waved contactless symbol; however, some exceptions exist, so please contact your card issuer for details.
Service areas
All Kintetsu Railway lines (excluding Cable Car(Ikoma Line))
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You cannot use Tap to Ride for connection to the following other lines from a Kintetsu line:
Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau (Kyoto City Subway), West Japan Railway Company (JR West), Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), Sangi Railway, and Ise Railway lines -
You cannot use this service at the following connecting fare gates, so please make sure to exit through a non-connecting Kintetsu gate, then go to another line.
- Tsuruhashi Station (to JR lines (JR West) )
- Kintetsu-Nagoya Station (to Meitetsu lines)
Kansai Network Map_Tap to Ride Service Areas in PDF
How to use Tap to Ride
Tap your payment tool on the reader of a contactless fare gate for at least one second.
Please use the same payment tool for your entire trip.
■ Contactless fare gates
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Automatic fare gate -
Simple dedicated terminal
What to know before you tap to ride
Settlement date and child fare
- In this service, the fares for the day of use will be settled in full the following day. Therefore, the actual date of use may differ from the date of use written in the statement or usage notification email.
- Please note that Tap to Ride does not apply to child fares.
Important
Tap to Ride on the Kintetsu lines is limited to getting on and off within the service areas. (However, even when riding from an alternate station is accepted in a tap-to-ride section, the service may be unavailable on some routes.)
When you enter and exit the fare gate, be sure to tap your payment tool on it.
- Once you enter, it is valid only for the day.
- If the payment tool you used is not properly processed and your entry or exit is not recorded, you may be required to pay the fare for your traveled section in cash.
- Tap to Ride cannot be used in conjunction with other tickets (e.g., commuter passes, multi-trip tickets).
- The service cannot be used to adjust fares for additional travel on fare adjustment machines.
- The service cannot be used for admission tickets.
- If you have exited the fare gate and your entry and exit have been recorded, no refunds will be made by declaration.
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You cannot use different payment tools to enter and exit even if the tools use the same card.
Example: You tap your card to enter and tap your smartphone to exit. - Payment tools cannot be used by anyone other than the card holder.
Other
- In the event of train service disruptions, power outages, fare gate malfunctions, or other system failures, Tap to Ride may become unavailable.
- Matters relating to the use of other means of transportation are subject to the terms and conditions of the transportation used.
- Free alternative transportation does not accept contactless payment.