{"id":4306,"date":"2026-03-25T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:02:56","slug":"how-to-use-contactless-payment-in-the-hakone-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/article\/4306","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Contactless Payment in the Hakone Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Service Features<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Applicable to the Hakone Tozan Train,Hakone Tozan Cable Car,Hakone Tozan Bus, Hakone Sightseeing Cruise, Hakone Ropeway, Odakyu Highway Bus, and Tokai Bus services<\/p>\n<p>2. With contactless payment, Hakone Sightseeing Cruise and Hakone Ropeway tickets are upgraded from round-trip tickets to one-day unlimited ride tickets<\/p>\n<p>3. Smooth boarding and no waiting in line\u2014just tap and ride<\/p>\n<p>4. No need to get any cash ready or recharge your IC transit card before boarding the bus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/hakonenavi_crecatouch_banner_US_3_01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Accepted Card Brands<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4312 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_02.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_02-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_02-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_02-1024x483.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Use<\/h2>\n<p>Look for the yellow* and blue boxes installed at the designated stations<\/p>\n<h6>* The yellow boxes are exclusively for EMot QR ticket authentication.<br \/>\nFor details on EMot digital tickets, please check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emot-tickets.jp\/areas?language=en&amp;site=\">here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/hakonenavi_crecatouch_banner_US_3_02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>For contactless payment users<\/h2>\n<p>For the Hakone Tozan Train,Hakone Tozan Cable Car services, tap your contactless credit card or smartphone on the dedicated terminal when boarding and alighting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/hakonenavi_crecatouch_banner_US_04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the Hakone Tozan Bus service, tap your contactless credit card or smartphone on the dedicated terminal when boarding and alighting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_04.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_04-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_04-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/hakonenavi_banner_us_04-1024x401.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the Hakone Sightseeing Cruise and Hakone Ropeway services, tap your contactless credit card or smartphone on the blue box.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/hakonenavi_crecatouch_banner_US_3_04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Fares<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/hakonenavi_crecatouch_banner_US_06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Service Features &nbsp; 1. Applicable to the Hakone Tozan Train,Hakone Tozan Cable Car,Hakone Tozan Bus, Hakon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"destination":[18,16,19,17],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping","destination-sengokuhara","destination-yumoto","destination-motohakone","destination-goura"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hakonenavi.jp\/international\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination?post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}