My part time job doesn’t provide commuter passes, my boss wants everyone working to show them proof of travels and he will pay the necessary fees back in our paycheck monthly. Since I have already a commuter pass for school that I paid for, at the train station they told me they can’t do anything about it because my job is in one of the passing by stations and I’m charged 0 yen each time.My coworker through Suica Mobile downloads and prints all his travel history, highlights the home-work travels and my boss is happy with that. I’m trying to do the same, though, and the app is completely frozen and not working. The website requires a registration that I can do only through the non-working app.
With Google Pay it says I need Osaifu-Keitai, which I don’t have (and I don’t even know what it is). Looking through the internet it says I either would need an iPhone or a specific kind of Android purchased in Japan, both that I don’t have. I see my movements already on an unofficial app called Suikakeibo, which I initially downloaded just to see my balance, but of course I can’t get a PDF through that. It is also not perfect, because some of my travels are not shown.
So what am I supposed to do? I’m trying to solve this with my coworker, but since he has been living in Japan for longer and has an iPhone he also doesn’t know what to do.
(PS. I have been living in Japan for only a couple months, so I apologize in case I don’t know some obvious things)
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You can print your history at the station at the automatic ticket machines, and that should be the same history as doing it on the app. Not sure how it works for commuter passes though. The app is a lot newer than the machines so tbh I consider them more …reliable I guess? You know how Japan is about new technology.
Do you actually need a copy btw? At the jobs I’ve been at just telling them the route I used and the price was enough. If printing it at the station doesn’t work out you should ask your employer what they want you to do. I doubt this is the first time they’ve had an employee use a commuter pass that they already had.
Osaifu keitai is a function that is built in. If your phone doesn’t have it, it just doesn’t have it.
If you’re using a physical suica card, and have an android phone that supports NFC, you can try to use [this app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediavrog.ic_card_expensetracker) to read your card, and save the history.
Note that it is only able to read the card history stored on the card, which is about 20 transactions or so. You need to use the app and read your card every couple of days if you want a complete history over time.
Also, the free version only allows you to display a limited amount of history. You’ll need to buy the app if you wish to export the data to a CSV.
You are also able to print the last 100 transactions on your suica card at any ticket terminal.
Only some card stored records of usage within commuter pass section. Suica and Passmo isn’t one of them. So you cannot get the history because it isn’t there.