Japan Rail Pass

The Japan Rail Pass ( Japanese ジ ャ パ ン レ ー ル パ ス japan rēru pasu ) is a train pass sold by the Japan Railway Group and can be used on most of the JR Group transportation. The train pass is designed to promote travel and tourism across Japan .

Rail Pass

The Rail Pass is available in two versions, one for each of the car classes : Standard Class ( 普通 車 futsū-sha ) and First Class or Green Car ( グ リ ー ン 車 gurīn-sha ). The pass is also limited in time. Passes are available for 7, 14 or 21 consecutive days. The table below summarizes prices (in yen ) and time periods for each pass. The voucher ( exchange order , see below) is bought in the respective home country and paid for in local currency, converted according to current exchange rates.

class		7 days	14 days	21 days
First class (Green Car)	Adult	¥ 39,600	¥ 64,120	¥ 83,390
	child	¥ 19,800	¥ 32,060	¥ 41,690
Standard class	Adult	¥ 29,650	¥ 47,250	¥ 60,450
	child	¥ 14,820	¥ 23,620	¥ 30,220

Voucher (Exchange Order)

The Rail Pass is sold by the JR Group, but a voucher must be purchased from a travel agency outside of Japan. The voucher is also sold by Japanese airlines Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways . It cannot be bought within Japan. The voucher itself cannot be used for travel and must be exchanged at a JR ticket counter ( み ど り の 窓 口 midori no madoguchi ) in one of the following JR train stations:

Kushiro train station Obihiro train station Asahikawa Railway Station Sapporo train station New Chitose Airport Railway Station Hakodate Railway Station Aomori train station Hachinohe Railway Station Akita Station Sendai Railway Station Yamagata Railway Station Fukushima train station Niigata Railway Station Nagano train station Tokyo Haneda Airport train station Tokyo Narita Airport train station Tokyo Narita Airport Terminal 2 Railway Station Tokyo train station

Ueno train station Shinjuku train station Shibuya train station Ikebukuro station Shinagawa Railway Station Yokohama Railway Station Shin-Yokohama Railway Station Odawara train station Mishima Railway Station Shizuoka Railway Station Hamamatsu train station Nagoya Railway Station Kanazawa Railway Station Kyoto station Shin Osaka Railway Station Osaka train station

Kansai Airport Railway Station Sannomiya train station Okayama Station Matsue train station Hiroshima Railway Station Shimonoseki Railway Station Takamatsu train station Matsuyama Railway Station Tokushima Railway Station Kokura train station Hakata Railway Station Nagasaki Railway Station Kumamoto Railway Station Oita train station Myazaki Railway Station Kagoshima Chūō Station

validity

The pass is valid for the use of Japan Railways Group (JR) transport throughout the country in the designated carriage class on the following lines:

train

• Shinkansen , except Nozomi and Mizuho
• interregional express trains (Limited Express) ( 特急 tokkyū )
• Express trains (Express) ( 急 行 kyūkō )
• Express trains (Rapid ( 快速 kaisoku ) and Special Rapid ( 新 快速 shin-kaisoku ))
• Regional trains (Local) ( 普通 futsū )

bus

• JR Hokkaidō bus
• JR Tohoku Bus
• JR Bus Kanto
• JR Tokai Bus
• West Japan JR bus
• Chugoku JR bus
• JR Shikoku bus
• JR Kyushu bus

Highway bus routes

• Sapporo → Otaru
• Morioka → Hirosaki
• Tokyo → Nagoya , Kyōto , Osaka , Tsukuba Center
• Nagoya → Kyōto , Osaka
• Osaka → Tsuyama , Kasai Flower Center

Ferries

• JR Miyajima Ferry ( Miyajima → Miyajimaguchi )

Conditions for exchange

The Rail Pass was introduced for tourism and is therefore subject to certain conditions.

Eligibility requirements

The user must meet one of the following two conditions:

• A tourist with a " Temporary Visitor " sticker in his passport. This is usually noted automatically. This passport must be shown when exchanging the voucher, a photocopy is not permitted. (Does not apply to people with a working holiday visa!)
• A Japanese citizen living abroad
  • and lives there permanently, right?
  • is married to a person who is not a Japanese national who lives in a country other than Japan.

Redeem the voucher

The voucher must be exchanged for the Japan Rail Pass within three months of being issued. The date from which the Japan Rail Pass is to be valid must be specified. This date must be within one month of the voucher being exchanged.

See also

• Seishun 18 Kippu

swell

1. ↑ http://www.japanrailpass.net/de/de009.html
2. ↑ http://www.japanrailpass.net/de/de004.html
3. ↑ http://www.japanrailpass.net/de/de002.html
4. ↑ http://japanischlernen.eu/japan-rail-pass-mit-dem-zug-durch-japan/
5. ↑ https://www.jrailpass.com/de/faq/japan-rail-pass-exchange-offices

Web links

• Official website (English, German)
• https://www.jrailpass.com/de/ , online provider