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PASMO is the contactless IC transit card of Greater Tokyo's private railways and buses, issued by PASMO Co., Ltd., which is owned by 11 railway and 18 bus operators including Tokyo Metro, Odakyu and Keio. It is prepaid e-money: users load value in advance, then tap at ticket gates, on buses and at shops. PASMO launched on 18 March 2007 and has worked interchangeably with other Japanese transit IC cards since March 2013. Mobile PASMO arrived on Android and Apple Pay in 2020 and passed 5 million users in February 2024, while more than 40 million PASMO cards were in circulation by April 2021.
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