Can Osaka pay by Alipay or WeChat?

According to Japanese media reports, the Japanese company "Dazhuang", which operates izakaya such as "Zhuangwu", "Japanese Haizhuangwu" and "Dazhuang Aquatic Products", has introduced WeChat payment in its 30 izakaya since July 20 18.

The shops that introduced WeChat payment this time are mainly those close to the busy streets and tourist destinations frequented by China tourists, which are distributed all over Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu. Among them, there are more shops in Tokyo, followed by Sapporo, Hokuriku, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Okayama, Takamatsu, Hakata and other places to introduce WeChat payment.

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It is reported that from the summer of 20 18, USEN Holdings and Lacarra began to distribute QR codes that can be paid by Alipay and WeChat at the same time to stores in Japan, and launched related settlement services to stores signed by USEN Holdings. After autumn, the settlement terminal and hotel automatic actuarial machine sold by USEN Holdings will also support these two settlement functions.

The customers of USEN Holdings include restaurants and hotels, and the number of customers who are very concerned about electronic settlement in China is around 400,000. At present, there are about 40,000 shops supporting Alipay in Japan. If the signing stores controlled by USEN also support Alipay, it will have a huge impact.

According to the data of Japan Tourism Agency, the total consumption of Japanese tourists accounts for about 40% of the total number of tourists coming to China. USEN Holdings believes that there is a high demand for shops that want to seize the needs of Japanese tourists visiting China to introduce electronic settlement in China.

It is reported that Lacarra is a large settlement terminal enterprise in China. In addition to Alipay and WeChat payment, it also operates services that support UnionPay settlement. About 5 million stores in China have introduced Lacarra's settlement service, with an annual transaction volume of about 30 trillion yen.

People's Daily Online-Alibaba will launch the Japanese version of Alipay next year, which is expected to be used in China and Japan.

People's Daily Online-izakaya introduced WeChat payment on a large scale to attract tourists from China to shop.