Ticket to ride: Disabled passengers face added burden from a lack of smart cards Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you re not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/
A father (far right) and his disabled child pass through a manned ticket gate to get discounts for travel fares at Tsukishima Station in Tokyo in January 2020, while a person in an electric wheelchair who is traveling with the pair waits inside the ticket gates. | KYODO
Kyodo Apr 25, 2021
For most, the convenience of riding trains with the swipe of a smart card is taken for granted. But for disabled people in the Tokyo metropolitan region, that change has yet to come.
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