JR東日本、スマホで払う「テッペイ」が始まる

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is October twenty-second. A big railway company in Tokyo just started a new way to pay with your phone. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down.

From the twentieth, JR East started a new way to pay money.

It means to pay.

It has a new name, and you use it through a smartphone app.

It means name.

It means to use.

People who already use the mobile train card app do not need to install a new app.

It means to put in. Here, it means to install an app.

At a shop, you show a code on your phone screen and pay.

It means shop.

It means to show.

The train card itself can only hold up to twenty thousand yen.

It means ten thousand. Japanese counts big numbers in units of ten thousand.

With the new service, you can now buy things that cost more than twenty thousand yen.

It means expensive.

It means shopping.

If you confirm your identity with your national ID card, you can use up to three hundred thousand yen.

It means to check or confirm.

You can also send money to your family and friends.

It means family.

It means friend.

It means to send.

From November fourth, if you spend five hundred yen or more, you get twenty percent back in points.

It means or more.

It means to receive.

Next spring, it is planned to work in another train card app too.

It means next year.

It means spring.

It means plan or schedule.

Now listen to the full story again.

Quiz time. Listen and answer.

From the twentieth.

Up to twenty thousand yen.

To family and friends.

Another train card app, used mainly in the Tokyo area.

That's all for this morning. Thanks for listening. See you next time.