As expected, more good information from ATADistance:
[1]JR East Suica System Downtime Notice by Joel Breckinridge Bassett:
Mobile Suica maintenance is a regular nightly occurrence from
1am~4am with longer once a month sessions. The [2]July 6~7 and July
20~21 Suica system maintenance work is very unusual for both the
time, 9pm~5am on each night, and the reach: both Mobile Suica and JR
East station Suica ticket machine services are going offline.
During the offline period you can still use plastic Suica and Apple
Pay Suica for transit and purchases as usual, but Apple Pay Suica
Recharge will be limited to cash only from 1am~4am. Remember that
you can always [3]cash recharge Apple Pay Suica at any convenience
store cash register or 7-Eleven ATM machine.
All other operations such as adding Suica to Wallet and all Suica
App functions, and corresponding services at JR East station Suica
ticket machines, will be offline for the entire maintenance window.
This is heavy system work that JR East is doing in preparation for
the new eTicketing system due next April. [4]JR East already had one
system meltdown last month. Let's hope they don't have another.
Be forewarned.
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My original entry is here: [5]PSA: JR East Suica System Downtime
Notice. It posted Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:27:55 +0900.
Filed under: Japan,
References
1.
https://atadistance.net/2019/06/09/jr-east-suica-system-downtime-notice/
2.
https://www.jreast.co.jp/suica/pdf/20190606maintenance.pdf
3.
https://atadistance.net/all-about-apple-pay-suica-recharge/
4.
https://atadistance.net/2019/05/25/jr-east-suica-app-shinkansen-eticket-refunds/
5.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=2977
