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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Pasmo

I guess most of you have a commuter ticket. But have you ever felt that it was inconvenient to take out the ticket every time you entered and went out a wicket?
Here's a piece of news at which these people will be glad. The "Pasmo" is coming soon! We can use it from March 18. Pasmo is the new service like "Suica", which will make our commuting more convenient. If we use it, we only have to touch "Pasmo" to the wicket when we enter and go out the wicket. We don't have to take out the ticket from our pockets! "Pasmo" will be able to be used in almost all railroads in the metropolitan area, such as "Tokyo Metro", "JR",and "TX".In buses also. Now, we can use it in more than 70 trains and busses, but the number of those will increase. You don't have to buy tickets to take or change trains, so that it is good for the environment. Then, we can choose two kinds of "Pasmo". The difference between the two is whether your own name is printed or not. If you choose the printed one, that "Pasmo" can be reissued in case you lose it.(Incidentaly, you have to have a printed one when you want to use it as a commuter ticket, )
As I said, "Pasmo"is like "Suica". So of course,we can use it as a commuter ticket and buy things with it. Now, the number of the stores that receive "Pasmo" is a little small, but it's going to increase. The railroad companies will also. Thus, "Pasmo" will become more and more useful, I think.
However, "Pasmo" has problems. One is that we can't change to two or more kinds of commuter tickets to it. For example> you're using JR Sobu Line and Yurakucho Line to go to school and have a commuter's ticket for these trains. Then, you can't change both of them to "Pasmo". You can change only one ticket. In this point, the situation won't change so much.
Anyway, the convenience that we don't have to take the ticket out from the pocket is enough reason to have it. The appearance of "Pasmo" will bring more comfortable commuting.
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