To provide a service different from that by an automatic ticket gate machine for a commuter ticket user.
A commuter ticket issuing machine 2 issues a commuter ticket, usable for service apparatuses such as a rental machine 5, a vending machine 6, and a meal ticket vending machine 7 arranged inside or around a station. Each of the service apparatuses is provided with a read means for reading valid period data from the commuter ticket storing the valid period data and valid section data, a determining means for determining as to whether the valid period data read by the reading means includes the current day, and a control means performing a predetermined functional operation different from an operation of the automatic ticket gate machine 3 when the determining means determines that the current day is included. For example, the rental machine 5 carries out a lending/return receiving processes of items, such as umbrellas, while the vending machine 6 or the meal ticket vending machine 7 sells a commodity or a meal ticket in a cost rental form to the user of the commutation ticket.
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