Error Judgment on Ticket with No Entry Record When a passenger passes through a manned ticket gate with a paper ticket, the ticket is scissored or stamped to indicate that the passenger has indeed passed through the ticket gate and entered the station. In reality, however, there are many unmanned stations with only automatic ticket vending machines. When boarding a train with a ticket purchased at such stations, it is impossible to tell whether or not the ticket has passed through the ticket gate just by looking at the ticket. However, if the ticket gate is manned at a manned station, or if the crew of a one-man train checks the information on the ticket, there will be no particular problem. What about automatic ticket checkers? If you use a paper ticket that is compatible with an automatic ticket checker, you must put the ticket through the automatic ticket checker at the station where you enter, if it is equipped with an automatic ticket checker. When the ticket is passed through the automatic ticket checker, the “admission” information is written on the ticket. This is the pattern I actually experienced. When I tried to enter or pass through a transfer ticket gate with a ticket without “admission” information, an error message appeared and the ticket gate was rejected by the automatic ticket gate. In such cases, the ticket information is checked at the manned passageway, and if there is no problem, the ticket is let through. However, if you are rejected at the entrance from the ticket gate for transferring between a conventional train and the Shinkansen, you will have to go through more trouble. When you get off the Shinkansen and enter the ticket gate, you will also have to go to the manned passage and explain the situation. If you have a ticket that does not go through the automatic ticket gate when you get on the Shinkansen, you will be rejected again if you put it through the automatic ticket gate when you get off the Shinkansen.
The situation with ticket gates is not straightforward. If there were automatic ticket gates with doors, which are common in urban stations, there would be no way to make a mistake. However, lines that make unmanned stations have few passengers, so they sometimes install simplified automatic ticket checkers to reduce costs. For example, the simple automatic ticket checkers used by JR West handle only the entry and exit of IC cards and the admission of paper tickets. Paper tickets are simply placed in a box. Since there is no door for both entry and exit, there is a possibility that you may fail to recognize it as an automatic ticket checker if you are not aware of it. There may be a case that “the ticket gate of JR line is automatic, but another private railway line is also in the same station, and its ticket gate is not automatic”. However, if you go out from the private railway ticket gate and enter again from the JR ticket gate, there will be no problem. The problem is when there is a transfer gate between JR and private railways, and it is not an automatic ticket gate. And what if you have already issued a JR ticket in advance? Since the ticket is already in your possession and you are entering a JR line without going through an automatic ticket gate, there will be tickets that “have no record of entry through an automatic ticket gate at a station where there should be an automatic ticket gate”. If you try to exit through an automatic ticket gate with such a ticket or go through a Shinkansen transfer ticket gate, there is a possibility that you will be rejected.
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