Japan Racing Association (Main Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Masayoshi Yoshida; hereinafter JRA) and PayPay Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President & Representative Director, CEO, Corporate Officer: Ichiro Nakayama; hereinafter PayPay) are pleased to announce that they will begin integrating JRA’s online horse race ticket purchasing service Soku-PAT with PayPay on December 19, 2025 (scheduled). With this integration, users will be able to deposit (top-up) Soku-PAT betting funds using PayPay Money*1.
As a result, deposits (top-ups) from PayPay will be available for Soku-PAT in time for the Arima Kinen on December 28.
This marks the first time JRA’s online horse race ticket purchasing service will support deposits (top-ups) from a code-based payment service provider, with PayPay as the initial partner.
Until now, registering for Soku-PAT required an account with a JRA-designated bank. With this integration, PayPay users will be able to register for Soku-PAT even without an account at a JRA-designated bank. As PayPay supports approximately 1,000 financial institutions*2, users can fund their betting balance with PayPay Money via their usual financial institution, enabling more people to use “Soku-PAT” smoothly.
*1 For details on PayPay Money, please check here.
*2 As of September 2025. For details, please refer to “Available Financial Institutions.“
Using Soku-PAT with PayPay
– Users 20 years or older who have completed identity verification (eKYC) in PayPay can link PayPay to Soku-PAT*3.
– When linking to Soku-PAT, users must register a bank account in their own name in PayPay as the automatic transfer destination for any amount that would exceed the PayPay Money balance limit when receiving payouts, etc.
– Deposits (top-ups) from PayPay are available only when using Soku-PAT from a smartphone.
– Deposits (top-ups) from PayPay to Soku-PAT are capped at JPY 100,000 per session (“setsu”)*4.
– Deposits (top-ups) from PayPay to Soku-PAT are available only with PayPay Money.
– Deposits (top-ups) from PayPay to Soku-PAT are not eligible for PayPay Points.
– Deposits (top-ups) from PayPay to Soku-PAT are free up to two times per day; from the third time onward, a fee of JPY 15 (tax included) per transaction applies.
*3 For procedures regarding identity verification with PayPay, please refer to “Complete Identity Verification.“
*4 For more details on sessions (“setsu”), please refer to “About Sessions (“Setsu”).“
■ How to Link “PayPay” to “Soku-PAT”
■ Payouts, etc.
When PayPay is linked to Soku-PAT, payouts and unused balances deposited (topped-up)*5 within Soku-PAT will, in principle, be received via PayPay. Of funds withdrawn from Soku-PAT, up to JPY 1,000,000 *6 will be credited to PayPay as PayPay Money, which can be used for payments with PayPay. Any amount exceeding the PayPay Money balance limit will be transferred free of charge to the user’s pre-registered bank account in PayPay.
*5 Balance deposited (topped-up) from PayPay but not used within Soku-PAT are withdrawn by JRA after the session (“setsu”) ends and credited back to PayPay” as a top-up.
*6 If PayPay Paycheck is enabled, the maximum balance that can be held in a PayPay Money account is JPY 800,000.
■About the online horse race ticket purchasing service Soku-PAT
(https://jra.jp/dento/soku/about.html)
Soku-PAT is JRA’s online horse race ticket purchasing service. Users can easily complete membership registration online and purchase betting tickets the same day. For details on how to use the service, please refer to JRA’s website.
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