It can be purchased at ticket vending machines with toica sign or ticket offices handling [toica].
Ticket offices handling [toica] are as below.
The purchase price is 2,000 yen, including a refundable deposit of 500 yen and an initial amount of 1,500 yen that is loaded onto the card. Only cash is accepted.
You can pass through the ticket gates by simply touching your toica card to the card reader on the ticket gate. The fare will be automatically deducted from your card's balance. *If you are using a “toica commuter pass”, a fare on the outside of the commuter pass section will be subtracted.
As toica can be loaded with money to increase the cards balance, it can be used over and over again. Ticket vending machines with the toica mark can be used to load a card up to 20,000 yen.
If a toica commuter pass is loaded with money, the additional fare will be automatically deducted when riding past the covered areas or getting on from an uncovered station.
It is not possible to use toica card to travel between disjoined IC card areas.
Register for Shinkansen Online Reservation Service and board Shinkansen by touching your TOICA.
If you register your credit card and TOICA from your smartphone and make reservations for Shinkansen, you can board by touching your TOICA to the ticket gate. Please refer here for details.
For more details about other areas where toica can be used, please see the websites for Kitaca, PASMO, Suica, manaca, PiTaPa, ICOCA, HAYAKAKEN, nimoca, and SUGOCA.
You may use your IC card's balance to buy tickets at ticket vending machines.
Your toica can be used on trains, buses, and at stores that have this symbol.
Toica can be used at stores and vending machines that feature symbols like the one on the right. You can also use it at the store that accept Kitaca, PASMO, Suica, manaca, ICOCA, HAYAKAKEN, nimoca, and SUGOCA.
