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Sep 30, 2026
Bob WulffHOST
Yes.
Bob WulffHOST
You could use your Suica card, which is like a Japanese Metro card.
Will WulffHOST
Uh-huh.
Bob WulffHOST
The Suica card could be used for a lot of stuff.
Bob WulffHOST
So imagine you can use your Metro card to buy stuff at 7-Eleven and buy stuff online.
Bob WulffHOST
It's like a prepaid card you load up, and you can use it to buy stuff basically anywhere in Japan.
Bob WulffHOST
This was a short... thing, though.
Bob WulffHOST
I don't think this lasted very long, but it was a thing.
DJ Ranma SHOST
Well, yeah, because my other drawer where I keep my passport is like right over there.
DJ Ranma SHOST
Now, the reason why I brought my passport is because in my passport are my IC cards or Suica cards.
DJ Ranma SHOST
I wanted to share.
DJ Ranma SHOST
show off my penguin Suika card which probably has like less than 300 yen on it and I did not realize something like this was going to be worth something you know because I didn't know that they were going to get rid of the penguin mascot and to be fair I believe the Ioka card is Osaka or Kyoto I And there is basically like a penguin on there too.
DJ Ranma SHOST
And the penguin is going to be saying bye-bye.
DJ Ranma SHOST
The penguin has been the mascot for 25 years.
DJ Ranma SHOST
But November of last year they made this announcement that they're severing ties with the character and that The last batch of Suica cards with the penguin have been distributed to all of the machines.
DJ Ranma SHOST
So once they're done, it's done.
Andy BHOST
For a solo game, you go, man, that looks pretty great to me.
Andy BHOST
Scrabble meets Suica meets Bellatro, they say.
Andy BHOST
That's What Is This Game? Thanks for checking those out this week.
Andy BHOST
Sometimes they're hardcore.
LewisHOST
I learned a lot of stuff about, like, you know, the culture, um, Couple things I learned there.
LewisHOST
The Suica card, which is kind of like a MetroCard, basically manages most of the infrastructure for Tokyo.
LewisHOST
I mean, for Japan as a whole.
LewisHOST
So subways, vending machines, you can pay for stuff at 7-Eleven with it.
LewisHOST
All the hole-in-the-wall shops that use kind of like a vending machine-style thing to order your food uses the Suica card also.
LewisHOST
If you're an iPhone user, you actually get a virtual version of the Suica card built into the phone to use through the Apple Wallet.
LewisHOST
android is coming out i think later this year uh it like the whole place runs on apple like apple's gps runs better over there like it's more like intuitive because you have these giant hubs in the center of all these cities which is just like the train station but the train station feeds into like six malls and a bunch of underground paths that bring you to different corners of whatever town you're in so it's a lot of like self-navigation But if your GPS ain't cut for it, you're really going to have a really, really bad time.
LewisHOST
Like it's very hard to navigate.