To provide passage service for users while preventing illegal acts by allowing a user to pass through one area when the information of a ride medium thrown in when the user enters or exits from the area and the information of a passage medium with monetary value thrown in when the user enters or exits from the area are both proper.
When a passage service ticket is issued, a train ticket is needed and a coupon ticket card, etc., is used as the train ticket. Further, a fixed amount of money is deposited as compensation money. A setting device 34 sets the effective time, etc., of the passage service ticket. When coins are thrown in a coin slot by a specific amount and the train ticket is fed inserted into a ticket throw-in slot, a coin processor 35 processes the kind of the coins and a train ticket processor 36 reads the ticket information out of the train ticket. Then the effectiveness of the coins is decided and when it is decided that one or both of them are ineffective, the thrown-in coins and train ticket are discharged to a return discharge opening, but when the effectiveness is decided, a passage service ticket processor 37 records data to issue the passage service ticket, which is sent to the return discharge opening together with the train ticket.
MAEDA MASAYUKI
KURATA TADAHIKO
KITAURA SEI
