Japan Rail Pass, how to buy and where to buy the pass for fast trains, several buses and even a ferry one Japan. How to save even in one of the most expensive places in the world.
Il Japan it is a really beautiful and great destination and for this reason it should be visited calmly. Often, however, you don't have the time and often because of the planes you move too quickly without seeing anything. In any case, the traditions so different from ours, the local architecture and the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun, cannot leave even the most distracted visitor indifferent.
By purchasing the Japan Rail Pass, a tourist card that allows foreign visitors to travel for free on all trains, buses and ferries operated by the Japan Railways company, you can travel calmly and see a little bit of everything. The high-speed train is also included in this ticket Shinkansen.
Among the various options there are travel books from ten days but also from seven days up to 14 and 21. If you want to do a tour in Japan, study your route well because the price is not very low, so see if it is worth doing and when to buy it. To buy it just go to authorized stations directly or on Japan Rail Pass.
Where to buy the Japan Rail Pass and when
The Japan Rail Pass is all about time. It should be purchased when you are not in Japan yet, but within three months of the trip. If I buy on October 1st, but travel to Japan from March 1st of the following year, that's no longer good. I have to travel within three months of purchase. The Japan Rail Pass is purchased when you have not yet departed e is delivered directly to your home.
Il cost of the Japan Rail Pass is 192 € for seven days of travel, 306 € for ten days of travel and 392 € for twenty-one days of travel. Note that the Japan Rail Pass is also valid for travel from major airports to city centers.
How to activate the Japan Rail Pass
Once you have purchased the Japan Rail Pass, you will receive a sheet of paper at home that you will need to bring with you and which, together with the passport, you will use to exchange with your travel book, the one you see in the initial photo of this post, to be precise.
From that moment and only from that moment you can set the starting date of validity of the Japan Rail Pass. You can in fact buy the Japan Rail Pass for one duration of 7, 10 or 21 days of travel. If you intend to use it the same day that you exchange it for the paper voucher, enter the date of the day, if you intend to use it starting two or three days later, enter the dates that interest you. However, you must go to a train office of any Japan Rail station directly in Japan.
How to use the Japan Rail Pass
The Japan Rail Pass is not difficult to use, but you have to be careful of a lot of things. First of all, in every Japan advice site under the Japan Rail Pass you will find these indications: the Japan Rail Pass is not valid on trains Nozomi and Mizuhoso be careful when taking fast trains.
The Japan Rail Pass cannot be used in carriages Green Car and in carriages with reserved seats. Usually you can't even use it in first class carriages, but this depends on what kind of Japan Rail Pass you buy. To find out how to orient yourself in the carriages with reserved seats, pay attention to read the timetable while you are about to take the train, in addition to scrolling through the destinations and intermediate stops, you will also find written which carriages have non-reserved seats - usually they are the first carriages, therefore those from the first to the fifth / fourth carriage.
The Japan Rail Pass can be used on several buses, always ask the staff before taking them and show your Japan Rail Pass and it can be used on the ferry to Miyajima.
The Japan Rail Pass can only be used on JR trains, not on those of other companies, I tell you because in my trip I happened to take a train of another company and I could not use the Japan Rail Pass, but I am very few routes where you will not need it, usually the JR routes buy all of Japan.
Because I liked the Japan Rail Pass
I liked the Japan Rail Pass because it allows you to travel freely around Japan without any problems. In some cities, such as Tokyo, it is also possible to use it inside the city, because the lines cross some of the larger subway stations. Trains in Japan are extremely clean, on time and comfortable. The spaces between one seat and the other are enormous and the train is divided into rows of three and two seats.
As for cleaning, after each user the train is always cleaned by a cleaning team that enters the wagons two by two and mops, dusts and collects crumbs. It also turns all the seats in the direction of travel of the train. The controllers often pass even if the ticket is checked both at the entrance and at the exit of the station. If you do not have a ticket, you cannot access the train station. One thing that I found incredibly right, after all.
