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This was doubly amazing in a recent vacation to Japan. We were able to provision a local transit card (Pasmo) from within the Wallet app and load funds with a credit card we already had in Wallet.

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Long-time Japan resident here. I haven’t travelled outside Japan for quite a while so I don’t have a good sense of how payments work in daily life elsewhere. Here, the big convenience store chains now accept a couple of dozen different types of contactless, swipe, or QR code payments [1, 2, 3 (in Japanese)]. However, cash is also widely used, and many smaller businesses still accept only cash [4, 5 (ditto)].

[1] https://www.sej.co.jp/services/cash.html

[2] https://www.family.co.jp/services/payment.html

[3] https://www.lawson.co.jp/service/payment/settlement/index.ht...

[4] https://www.caa.go.jp/policies/policy/consumer_policy/meetin...

[5] https://dentsu-ho.com/articles/8187

In Vancouver you can just pay directly with your credit card or debit card (or google wallet, apple pay, whatever). No loading of a separate account. It's really handy if you're just visiting.

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