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2 Weeks in Japan: Overwhelmed and confused with JR passes, and how to cost-effectively get around.
Hello, I am traveling for around 2 weeks in Japan later this year with 1 other person in late autumn/early winter. I've been doing quite a bit of research on how to get around the best way but also not while burning the entire in-land travel budget, which is around 1,5K USD/227K Yen/10K DKK.
Our itinerary simply put looks like this:
- Arriving early morning in KIX. (Kansai International Airport)
- 2 Nights in Osaka.
- 4 Nights in Kyoto.
- 1 Night in Hiroshima.
- 7 Nights in Tokyo, but with one of the days including a daytrip to Kamakura and Yokohama.
- Departing from HND. (Tokyo Haneda Airport)
Now since the price of the regular country-wide JR pass increased substantially last year, I've been looking into both regional passes and what our in-land travels would potentially look like with only IC cards (Icoca) and regular shinkansen tickets. Of course it wouldn't be impossible to travel through the country with that in-land travel budget if I plan carefully, but I also don't want to constantly be anxious on if we have enough for the rest of the trip.
My first idea was buying the 5 day Kansai Hiroshima Pass, (Which also includes the Nozomi and Mizuho shinkansen, although unsure if those are of limited/unlimited use), and using IC cards for the first days of our trip in Osaka, and then the rest of it in Tokyo. (The Tokaido shinkansen from Shin-Osaka to Tokyo will just be bought regularly in this instance.)
My second idea was still buying the Kansai Hiroshima Pass with IC card use in Osaka for the first few days, but with either buying a Tokyo Wide Pass, Osaka-Tokyo Hokuriku Arch Pass, JR East Pass (Tohoku area), the 7 day national JR pass or the Tokyo metro pass. (Again, while buying the tickets from Shin-Osaka to Tokyo regularly, as only the national pass covers the Tokaido route.)
Third idea (wild card-ish) is to just go without any pass/regional pass and just budget accordingly, but I've already been doing so much research and trying to navigate certain websites with Japanese web-design, and planning/budgeting every single in-land trip no matter how small, (while it could be more cost-effective in certain areas of the trip), just sounds even more exhausting and anxiety inducing.
Maybe I'm overlooking crucial details here and there, but this is the first time I've planned a whole trip by myself with someone else, (and to this scale), and I don't really have anyone else in real life that's more knowledgeable on this to ask. If anyone has any genuine non-dismissive answers, I'd love to hear any ideas or suggestions..
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Hello, I am traveling for around 2 weeks in Japan later this year with 1 other person in late autumn/early winter. I've been doing quite a bit of research on how to get around the best way but also not while burning the entire in-land travel budget, which is around 1,5K USD/227K Yen/10K DKK.
Our itinerary simply put looks like this:
- Arriving early morning in KIX. (Kansai International Airport)
- 2 Nights in Osaka.
- 4 Nights in Kyoto.
- 1 Night in Hiroshima.
- 7 Nights in Tokyo, but with one of the days including a daytrip to Kamakura and Yokohama.
- Departing from HND. (Tokyo Haneda Airport)
Now since the price of the regular country-wide JR pass increased substantially last year, I've been looking into both regional passes and what our in-land travels would potentially look like with only IC cards (Icoca) and regular shinkansen tickets. Of course it wouldn't be impossible to travel through the country with that in-land travel budget if I plan carefully, but I also don't want to constantly be anxious on if we have enough for the rest of the trip.
My first idea was buying the 5 day Kansai Hiroshima Pass, (Which also includes the Nozomi and Mizuho shinkansen, although unsure if those are of limited/unlimited use), and using IC cards for the first days of our trip in Osaka, and then the rest of it in Tokyo. (The Tokaido shinkansen from Shin-Osaka to Tokyo will just be bought regularly in this instance.)
My second idea was still buying the Kansai Hiroshima Pass with IC card use in Osaka for the first few days, but with either buying a Tokyo Wide Pass, Osaka-Tokyo Hokuriku Arch Pass, JR East Pass (Tohoku area), the 7 day national JR pass or the Tokyo metro pass. (Again, while buying the tickets from Shin-Osaka to Tokyo regularly, as only the national pass covers the Tokaido route.)
Third idea (wild card-ish) is to just go without any pass/regional pass and just budget accordingly, but I've already been doing so much research and trying to navigate certain websites with Japanese web-design, and planning/budgeting every single in-land trip no matter how small, (while it could be more cost-effective in certain areas of the trip), just sounds even more exhausting and anxiety inducing.
Maybe I'm overlooking crucial details here and there, but this is the first time I've planned a whole trip by myself with someone else, (and to this scale), and I don't really have anyone else in real life that's more knowledgeable on this to ask. If anyone has any genuine non-dismissive answers, I'd love to hear any ideas or suggestions..
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