タッチしないで通れる改札、山手線の全駅に

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today, November eleventh: in Tokyo, you may soon walk through train ticket gates without touching anything at all. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down.

JR East announced that it will start new walk-through ticket gates.

It means ticket gate, the gate you pass through at a train station.

Now, when you go through a ticket gate, you touch an IC card or a smartphone to the machine.

It means to go through, or to pass.

With the new gates, you can keep walking and go through, without touching anything.

The gate opens even if your phone stays in your pocket or bag.

It means to open, when a door or gate opens by itself.

To use it, you need a certain kind of smartphone with the train pass app on it.

It means necessary, or needed.

You do not need to register a photo of your face.

From April twenty twenty-seven, about four hundred people will try it at fourteen stations, such as Tokyo and Shinjuku.

It means as a trial, to try something out.

Then from spring twenty twenty-eight, it can be used at forty stations, including every station on the Yamanote Line, the big loop line in Tokyo.

The company president said people with big bags or pushing strollers can also go through easily.

It means bags or luggage, things you carry.

JR East hopes to make it usable at about five hundred fifty stations by March twenty thirty-two.

Now listen to the full story again.

Quiz time. Listen and answer.

In your pocket or in your bag.

Forty stations.

No. You do not need to register a photo of your face.

That's all for this morning. Would you like to walk through the gate with your phone in your bag? Thanks for listening, and see you next time.