Nimoca

As of March 2011

• Buses:
  • Nishitetsu Group: All local bus lines, and some highway bus lines.
  • Showa Bus: All local bus lines in Fukuoka Prefecture and some express bus lines.
  • Oita Bus: All local bus lines and some express bus lines.
  • Oita Kōtsū: All local bus lines and Airliner airport report bus lines.
  • Kamenoi Bus: All local bus lines.
• Trains: All the lines.
• Others (as electronic money): Solaria Plaza, Solaria Stage, Tenjin Core, Nishitetsu Store (those along Tenjin-Ōmuta Line), and others.

Future plans

• Buses:
  • Showa Bus: All local bus lines in Saga Prefecture.
  • From 2013.

• nimoca: Does not require registration.
• Star nimoca: Requires registration. It can be reissued if a user loses it.
• Credit nimoca: A credit card with the above functions.

These three cards can be issued either as prepaid cards or commuters passes.

See also: Mejiron nimoca

The Mejiron nimoca (めじろんnimoca, Mejiron Nimoka) introduced the system on December 26, 2010 by Oita Bus, Oita Kōtsū and Kamenoi Bus in Oita Prefecture.[2] The cute design combines nimoca mascot Ferret with Mejiron (めじろん?), the mascot character widely loved as Oita Prefecture's cheering squad.

The Nimoca company provides a service where designers can upload images and have them printed on their custom IC cards. The minimum order is 500 cards where each card costs approximately ¥800.

Interoperation map (as of November 21, 2015)

The Nimoca card can be used anywhere Ic cards are accepted in Japan. As of July 2017 cards are accepted at all MOS Burger locations throughout Japan.

• (in Japanese) Official website