Nanaco is a kind of e-money, which is a prepaid and rechrageable, and it is uesd for Seven-Eleven, a convenience store.
There are a wide variety of contactless smart cards in Japan; for example, Suica, provided by East Japan Railway, and Edy by Sony. Nanaco was issued by April 2007. Although the launch was late rather than the others, Nanaco became the most popular form of e-money at the end of June. It was used for more than 30 million shopping transactions in June alone. Of courese, mobile phone is available to use Nanaco.
We, for example, will get one point for every ¥100 they spend, with each point exchangeable for ¥1 in e-money. I don't know wheather the ratio is valuable or not. But lucky or unlucky, we can not find any convenience store except Seven-Eleven, why don't you use it?
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