Kyoto City aims to introduce a "resident-priority price" on city buses by fiscal 2027, and on February 18, 2026, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the city conducted a demonstration experiment of a fare identification system in front of City Hall in Kyoto's Nakagyo Ward. Participants tapped transportation IC cards pre-linked to their My Number cards to verify that the resident price was correctly applied.
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