You still have to pay when you switch between operators, but there's no surcharge for that--you just pay for your *entire* trip in chunks
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For example: if I'm taking a train from Tsurukawa to Shin-Yokohama, I pay Odakyu for the Tsurukawa-Machida part, then pay JR at Machida...
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...for passage to Shin-Yokohama. JR doesn't charge me extra for coming from Odakyu. This is all even simpler with smart cards...
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...since I can just walk out the Odakyu fare gates and thru the JR ones without stopping at a ticket machine first.
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That's smart. Then you can switch trains... but why would you need to? Besides just to see the rails I mean.
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Lots of trips, even within a single operator's network, require a transfer to complete...
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...for example, if I go from Tsurukawa to Karakida on the Odakyu network, I must transfer at Shin-Yurigaoka
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So they don't care if you take a more inefficient transfer?
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right, because a more inefficient transfer is only really inefficient for the passenger--it would take longer
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I could, say, ride all the way to Noborito, switch to a Tama Express there, and ride to Karakida that way...but it'd be slower
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