Kitaca
Sign in to savethumb|Ticket gates with Kitaca readers at Hassamu-Chūō Station, Sapporo Kitaca () is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for public transport in Sapporo, Japan. It launched on October 25, 2008 and is managed by Hokkaido Railway Company. The card's name is a combination of the word for and the English loanword "card". 北 is also the first character of . Like other electronic fare collection systems in Japan, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony corporation known as FeliCa. The card's mascot is an ezo momonga (Pteromys volans orii), a type of flying squirrel found in
Official website
Kitaca｜鉄道・きっぷ｜JR北海道- Hokkaido Railway Company
JR北海道のポータルサイト。鉄道情報、旅行情報、関連事業情報、企業情報などを掲載。列車や宿泊の予約も可能。
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- Official website
- www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/chinese/ticket/kitaca
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- name in kana
- キタカ
- Commons category
- Kitaca
- commercialization date
- 2009-03-14
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thumb|Ticket gates with Kitaca readers at Hassamu-Chūō Station, Sapporo Kitaca () is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for public transport in Sapporo, Japan. It launched on October 25, 2008 and is managed by Hokkaido Railway Company. The card's name is a combination of the word for and the English loanword "card". 北 is also the first character of . Like other electronic fare collection systems in Japan, the card uses RFID technology developed by Sony corporation known as FeliCa. The card's mascot is an ezo momonga (Pteromys volans orii), a type of flying squirrel found in Hokkaidō, and was designed by Sora, an illustrator who lives in Sapporo.
As of end August 2022, the number of cards issued was approximately 1.96 million.