When Suica service is "partially available in some other stations," how do I find out where exactly?

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The easiest way to find out whether Suica et al. can be used at a JR East station is to type the station's name in Japanese (with the suffix 駅) into a search engine, and look at the corresponding 駅の情報 (station information) page on the JR East website, which should be among the first results. See for example here for Aizu-Wakamatsu station.

The station information page contains a Suica section with four "boxes", which indicate (from left to right) whether a Suica can be

  • used at the ticket gates;
  • charged with cash;
  • charged with JR East's "View Card" credit card; and
  • used for shopping at the station's kiosks or vending machines.

If the box is green, yes, if it is grey, no. If the page does not contain a Suica section, it means no to all.

For non-Japanese speakers, a simple way to obtain a station's Japanese name is on the line's Wikipedia page (for example here for the Ban'etsu West line), which lists the line's stations in Japanese and Latin characters.

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