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I was in Tokyo a few months ago and I could pay with my foreign credit card in most stores (supermarkets, department stores, chain stores, ...) Even NFC and Google Pay worked, which still don't in Korea for instance.

The Tokyo Metro booth at Haneda doesn't accept credit cards though, I had to withdraw cash in order to get a Pasmo (the JR booth was already closed for the evening).

At restaurants, cafés and small stores it was usually either cash only, or cash plus a combination among the dozen mobile payments solutions that exist in Japan. Very confusing.