DiDi Mobility Japan has started offering its taxi dispatch service inside Osaka City and around Kansai International Airport since September 27 2018. The China-based app DiDi, which optimizes tax dispatch service with the AI-based prospective analysis, is provided in 400 cities in the world and used by 550 million users today. In June this year, a local company in Japan was established with an investment from Softbank.
Chinese travelers visiting Osaka can pay by Alipay or WeChat Pay for the DiDi service and communicate with a driver by using an automatic translation tool (in Japanese and in Chinese) loaded on the app.