Crypto-keen travelers in Japan might presently be ready to use digital tokens to pay their way as they move around the country – with airport taxi services and baggage storage facilities in major cities launching crypto pay pilot initiatives.
The operators of a nationwide baggage storage service and a Ethereum ERC 20 protocol token say they have partnered with stores, guesthouses, tourist data centers and storage facilities in Tokyo and Osaka, still as businesses on the island of Hokkaido – a well-liked destination for domestic and international tourists. Partner firms agreed to take half in a pilot theme whereby travelers settle their baggage storage bills using digital tokens instead of Japanese yen.
The coin’s operators say their token, NinjaCoin, has recently been listed on British exchange platform Mercatox.
Meanwhile, per Bloomberg, Hinomaru limousine – a Tokyo-based airport pickup service with a fleet of some five hundred vehicles – has begun on an bold three-month pilot whereby customers pays for his or her rides in Bitcoin, Bitcoin currency or Ethereum, travel from either Narita or Haneda, the country’s 2 busiest airports to the metropolitan Tokyo space.
The company’s pilot is being conducted in conjunction with Remixpoint, the operator of monetary Services Agency-licensed exchange platform Bitpoint.
Remixpoint is one among Japan’s largest energy corporations, and last month declared it'd begin integrating Bitcoin pay “to address growing demand” – permitting Bitcoin customers access to a variety of discounts and special offers.
Last year, Peach, a Japanese budget airline, created headlines all over the globe once it declared that it supposed to start acceptive bitcoin ticket purchases – though over a year later, the airline’s crypto pay service remains yet to happen.
However, cryptocurrencies find their method into the travel business not in Japan, only.
As reported in Oct, government authorities in Australia have given their blessing to a deal which will see cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance invest USD 2.5 million into TravelbyBit, an Australian crypto startup – probably opening the door for crypto pay options for travelers at international airports.
Earlier this year, the company declared that "travelers from all over the globe are currently ready to pay using digital currency at Brisbane airport, the world’s initial digital currency airport."
In January, TravelbyBit revealed a story regarding Robert, an eighty-year-old Singaporean Bitcoin capitalist, who traveled Australia on crypto.
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