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Automatic ticket vending machines and automatic fare adjustment machines to support an additional language!

 

To enable more foreign visitors to Japan, whose numbers continue to increase in recent years, to purchase tickets and PASMO cards, charge their IC cards, adjust train fares and so forth using automatic ticket vending machines and automatic fare adjustment machines with a sense of ease and understanding, starting Friday, February 23, 2018, Tokyo Metro (Head Office in: Taito Ward, Tokyo; President: Akiyoshi Yamamura) will successively add Thai to the languages supported by those machines at each of its stations*.

The number of foreign visitors to Japan from Thailand was approx. 980,000 in 2017 (the highest on record; an increase of 9.5% year on year). This figure is going up with every passing year. With the addition of Thai, a total of seven languages that also include the preexisting options of Japanese, English, Chinese (traditional/simplified), Korean, French and Spanish are now supported by automatic ticket vending machines and automatic fare adjustment machines at Tokyo Metro stations.

Going forward, Tokyo Metro will continue its proactive endeavors in its capacity as a "guide to Tokyo" so that the increasing number of foreign visitors to Japan may ride Tokyo Metro in a convenient and easy-to-understand manner.

*Kita-senju Station on the Hibiya Line, Nakano Station and Wakoshi Station are excluded.

*"PASMO" is a registered trademark of PASMO Co., Ltd.

*Source: Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)

 

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