Orico Card THE POINT オリコカード・ザ・ポイント
Straightforward 1% no-fee card · Orient Corporation · Credit cards
One of the cleanest no-fee reward cards: 1 Orico Point per ¥100, doubled to 2% for the first six months up to ¥500,000 of qualifying spend, with Orico Mall uplifts and broad conversion options.
Highlights
- 1% base, 2% for the first six months
- Orico Mall bonuses
- Convert to Amazon balance, miles and partners
Things to consider
- Points need active conversion management
- Points have program expiration rules
Fees: No annual fee; 1% base with a 2% introductory period (six months, up to ¥500,000).
Points and rewards
This card earns Orico Points at a published base rate of 1% on eligible use, before exclusions and rounding.
- Points programme
- Orico Points
- Base earning rate
- 1%
- What a point is worth
- Typically 1 point≈¥1 on many e-gift/partner routes
Best for
Simple 1% return
Watch out for
Orico Points expire; redemption timing matters
How you earn
- Earning rule
- Card-specific; Orico Card THE POINT commonly 1 Orico Point per ¥100; legacy Smile programs differ
- Extra earning on this card
- Higher rate during entry period and Orico Mall
- Programme bonuses
- Orico Mall and card-specific first-month/tier bonuses
- Spend that earns
- Eligible shopping
- Spend that earns less, or nothing
- Fees, cash advances and designated charges; legacy programs use different units
- Caps, registration and thresholds
- Mall and campaign caps; minimum exchange units vary
- Expiry
- Orico Points generally expire 12 months after acquisition; legacy Smile rules differ
Using your points
- What points can be used for
- Amazon/Apple and other e-gifts; partner points; airline miles; products via conversion; donations where offered
- Statement credit or cash
- No general cash withdrawal; routes depend on catalog
- Shopping and merchants
- Digital gift codes and partner points are core uses
- Airlines and travel
- ANA/JAL and travel partners may be available at current ratios
- Hotels
- Indirect via gift/partner routes
- Transit and e-money
- Selected e-money/partner routes
- Partner points and gifts
- Broad e-gift and loyalty transfer catalog
- Investing and charity
- Limited; check current exchange catalog
- Highest-value route
- A 1-yen-equivalent e-gift/partner route before the short expiry
Programme rules published by orico.co.jp · Recorded from official material on 2026-08-17.Official program rule + card product page; temporary campaigns excluded unless labeled
Benefits
Standing benefits only — short-term signup campaigns are deliberately excluded.
- Annual fee and waivers
- Free
- Insurance
- See official page
- Family cards and ETC
- Family/ETC available
- Networks
- Mastercard · JCB
- Stated eligibility
- 18+
Issuance and the credit limit remain subject to the issuer’s screening.
Network variants
The networks this card is issued on. The issuing company, the annual fee and where the card is accepted can differ by network.
| Network | Annual fee | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mastercard | Free | Selectable network stated or represented at family level |
| JCB | Free | Selectable network stated or represented at family level |
Card facts
- Network
- Mastercard or JCB.
- Annual fee
- No annual fee.
- Fee waiver
- Not applicable because the card has no annual fee.
- Rewards
- Earns Orico Points.
- Base earning
- 1 point per ¥100 (1%), doubled to 2% for the first six months up to ¥500,000 of qualifying spend; exclusions apply.
- Bonus conditions
- Orico Mall uplifts and the intro rate have merchant, period and spend-cap conditions.
- Point expiry
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Redemption
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Foreign transaction fee
- Foreign-currency use incurs the issuer-designated overseas processing charge; verify the current percentage before travelling.
- Insurance
- No broad general travel-insurance benefit is asserted for this card in this record.
- Purchase protection
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Airport lounge
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Transit
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Digital wallets
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Family cards
- Family cards are available under the issuer fee and eligibility conditions.
- ETC card
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Stated eligibility
- Applicants must satisfy the issuer-stated age, income/status and other conditions; issuance and limits remain subject to screening. No approval-likelihood claim is made.
- Application
- Apply through the issuer channel. The issuer, not this site, decides issuance and the credit limit.
- Payment settings
- One-time, installment, bonus and revolving choices have different availability, fees and conditions; verify the selected setting.
- Revolving payment
- Revolving payment incurs the issuer-disclosed fee. Confirm automatic-revolving enrollment and any later-payment conversion before and after applying.
- Cash advance
- Not confirmed in reviewed official material (not the same as “no”)
- Limitations
- Terms, rates, benefits, insurance and campaigns can change. Verify the dated issuer material before applying; no approval ranking or foreign-resident eligibility claim is made.