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‘taspo’ has various convenient features.
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You can purchase cigarettes simply by touching ‘taspo’ without taking it out from your wallet.

‘taspo’ can be used even if other types of electronic money are in the same wallet. Providing that you have charged your electronic money,in advance you can easily purchase cigarettes simply by touching your ‘taspo’ card to a vending machine.
There may be rare cases where the card cannot be read at certain vending machines.

Using electronic money ‘pidel’ means you don’t need to carry small change.
Change for your purchase can also be charged as electronic money.
There is no need to carry bulky change in your wallet.		 See here for details

‘taspo’ enables you to purchase cigarettes from vending machines anytime.

Late-night voluntary operating controls on cigarette vending machines (suspension of operation from 23:00 to 5:00) were removed on August 1, 2008. Accordingly, ‘taspo’ card holders can purchase cigarettes from vending machines at any time.

Approximately 98% of cigarette vending machines throughout Japan accept ‘taspo’ cards.

As of August 2008, ‘taspo’ cards can be used at approximately 98% of vending machines throughout Japan.
With ‘taspo’, you can purchase cigarettes at almost any vending machines nationwide.

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