This equipment appears at a JR station in my town. At this time, this has not yet started its operation. If it starts, people can enter into this JR station by touching its panel with "SUGOCA"
card issued by JR Kyushu without a ticket. "SUGOCA" card is a pre-paid card that has held some amount of money in its IC chip. "SUGOCA" comes from a local expression in Kyushu province. "すごか（←すごい！）" means "Great!". In other same expressions, there are some words like "よか（←よい）","楽しか（←楽しい）","きつか（←きつい）".P.S. I might have made a mistake because I could not find the relationship between Sugoca's name and Kyshu word when I saw a brochure about Sugoca. But, people in Japan often use local expressions to name something used in only their area.
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Those types of machines are pretty convenient, aren't they?
I had heard of the SUGOCA card, but I didn't realize that the name was the same as an actual Kyushu word, and I didn't know about ～か either. Pretty interesting!
Jon-san,
I might make a mistake because I could not find the relationship between Sugoca's name and Kyshu word when I saw a brochure about Sugoca. But, people in Japan often use local expressions to name something used in only their area.
I see. By the way, the English in your comment is very well written! The only improvement that I can see is that "might make" ought to be "might have made." Very good!
Jon-san,
Thank you very much. I added a sentence that was corrected from your advice on this archive.
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