Samples of Passnet Cards

These cards are used to make the benches that were shown in the May 19th post. See the post for pictures of the benches. The cards are made of lightweight plastic. They are flexible. Train passengers can buy these cards, so they don't have to stand in line at the ticket machine each time they need to ride the train. These are for the Keio train line. They are sold in denominations of 100 to 5000 yen and they come, as you can see, with many different designs.

This is the basic design. It shows different kinds of trains.



Some cards are Disney,




some are cute animals,






and some are seasonal.



In the May 19th post, I mentioned that the turnstile kept the cards after they were used up. That was incorrect. (I have edited the post.) The turnstile only keeps tickets that are bought daily for specific trips. Used up passnet cards are turned in at the station either by handing them to a train station employee or by putting them in a box.

Big Sister has a few points still on some of these cards. At first, she wanted to start a collection of them but has decided to turn them in at the station. Here is the box at our station.