TOICA (トイカ, Toika) is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for JR Central railway network which was introduced in the Chūkyō Area (Greater Nagoya) of Japan on November 25, 2006.

The name is an acronym for Tōkai IC Card.^[1] Just like JR East's Suica or JR West's ICOCA, the card uses RFID technology^[2] developed by Sony corporation known as FeliCa.^{[citation needed]}

As of December 2007, 350,000 cards have been issued. In the Nagoya area, 50% of the riders, or 70% of the commuter pass holders, use the card.^[3]

Usable area

As of 2022, TOICA is currently accepted on JR Central lines in the following area:

• Tōkaidō Main Line, between Atami and Maibara (the whole line of JR Central operation)
  • Includes branch between Ōgaki and Mino-Akasaka
  • East of Atami and west of Maibara, stations are served by Suica or ICOCA, see below on limitations when using
• Gotemba Line, between Kōzu and Numazu (the whole line)
  • East of Kōzu, stations are served by Suica
• Minobu Line, between Fuji and Nishi-Fujinomiya
• Iida Line, between Toyohashi and Toyokawa
• Taketoyo Line, between Ōbu and Taketoyo (the whole line)
• Chūō Main Line, between Nagoya and Nakatsugawa
• Kansai Main Line, between Nagoya and Kameyama (the whole line of JR Central operation)
  • West of Kameyama, stations are served by ICOCA

    

• Takayama Main Line, between Gifu and Mino-Ōta
• Taita Line, between Mino-Ōta and Tajimi (the whole line)

TOICA is also supported, since 2018, by Aichi Loop Line.

Integrated services

TOICA is also usable in Suica accepting area (Greater Tokyo Area, Sendai, and Niigata) and ICOCA accepting area (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto and Okayama-Hiroshima) and SUGOCA accepting area (Fukuoka-Saga). Suica (including Mobile Suica), ICOCA and SUGOCA are usable in TOICA accepting area as well. However, a card has to be used within a single area, unless for some periodic cards which may support cross-area travelling within specific section; for instance, it is not possible to use a card for the trip between Tokyo and Nagoya. The integrated service with Suica and ICOCA started in March 2008 and with SUGOCA in March 2011. Use in the PASMO, SUGOCA, or Kitaca service areas is valid since national integration of IC cards.

Smart card systems in Shizuoka Prefecture, namely LuLuCa (Shizuoka Railway) or NicePass (Enshu Railway) are yet to be integrated.