payment with japanese visa

I got a smbc visa card. I am not able anymore to pay outside japan. For example i wanna buy train tickets in EU site but it just says no.
That’s pretty bad. Does anybody know if there’ s anything i can do, how can japan be outside of international visa system. I think it was working a few years ago. Does anybody hit the same issue and what did you do to overcome it ?

6 comments
  1. double check your card settings (you can do this in the app)

    there’s a section on use in foreign countries

    ive used mine outside of japan last golden week

  2. Usually that has to be turned on explicitly. That’s for safety purposes. Typically you set a date range that the card is valid internationally

  3. I exclusively used my SMBC card in the US last week. Works fine. Turn on foreign use

  4. Thanks for your comments. I am speaking about paying online not im a shop or wirhdraw money. I did check both card account and bank account but did not find anyrhing relevant. If you jabe some clues i ll be happy. I read japanese.

  5. Are you inputting the correct billing address (I.e your Japanese address) for the online purchase?

  6. Check your text messages, it probably sent you a link to a page where you can authorize the transactions. Assuming you still have a Japanese phone number.

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