Nowadays, most fares are paid using smart cards, but the principle is the same: one fee is charged at ticket gates, surcharges paid onboard
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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is joyriding legal?
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yeah, but not encouraged (and you're a huge dick if you do it during busy hours)
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