...and is checked (either by the driver or at fare gates) at the station you get on at and get off at, to make sure it matches.
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...but it's a cheap way to explore the railways themselves, you just have to stay on board or inside fare gates at stations...
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...until you get back to the station adjacent to the one you boarded at, exit, and walk the rest of the way home.
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The second way is much more pernicious, and you can't get away with it using a smart card--only paper tickets. This is the 2-ticket approach
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You buy TWO tickets, each for a single-stop trip, before going through the fare gates, and use different ones to enter and exit.
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There are a number of mechanisms in place, formal and informal, that prevent this sort of cheating
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The first is that ticket machines or clerks will only sell you tickets for their own network; eg you can't buy Keio tickets at Odakyu stops
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Consequently, your range is already limited to within a single company's network. But that's just the informal barrier...
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The formal barrier is that tickets are marked in some way (usually a hole punch) as you *enter* the system, and that mark is checked at exit
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So, when you try to sneak out of the system at your exit using the second ticket, you're very likely to get caught at the fare gates
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...because the tickets are mechanically marked, and it's unlikely you'll manage to mark it the same way so the fare gate reads it properly
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So REMEMBER! Don't try to cheat the trains! If you get away with it, you hurt them, and if you don't, you hurt yourself!
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