JR West Pass

Kansai Wide Area Pass

Kansai WIDE Area Pass is a special rail pass that lets you use Bullet Train "SANYO SHINKANSEN" Express Trains, and Conventional lines connecting the Kansai Area (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe) to Kansai-airport, Shiga, Tsuruga, the Okayama Area, the Nankai Area, and Kinosaki-Onsen (Spa).

※ To get more information. Please visit Kansai Wide Area Pass website operated by West Japan Railway Company.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Kansai Wide Area Pass at a valid exchange office in a major JR station.

Sanyo-San'in Area Pass

Get unlimited rides on the Sanyo Shinkansen (incl. Nozomi and Mizuho, betewwn Shin-Osaka and Hakata), Limited Express and local trains (incl. Rapid and Special Rapid services) in the area (incl. Chizu Express) with reserved or non-reserved seats, JR-West Miyajima Ferry, and West JR Bus, Chugoku JR bus in the area.

※ To get more information. Please visit Sanyo-San'in Area Pass website operated by West Japan Railway Company.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Sanyo-San'in Area Pass at a valid exchange office in a major JR station.

Hokuriku Area Pass

Get unlimited rides on the Sanyo Shinkansen (incl. Nozomi and Mizuho, betewwn Shin-Osaka and Okayama), Hokuriku Shinkansen (between Kanazawa and Joetsumyoko), Limited Express and local trains (incl. Rapid and Special Rapid services) in the area with non-reserved seats, Kyoto Tango Railway, Wakayama Electric Railway, and West JR Bus in the area.

※ To get more information. Please visit Hokuriku Area Pass website operated by West Japan Railway Company.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Hokuriku Area Pass at a valid exchange office in a major JR station.

Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass

Get unlimited rides on the Sanyo Shinkansen (incl. Nozomi and Mizuho, betewwn Hakata and Mihara), Limited Express and local trains (incl. Rapid service) in the area non-reserved seats, JR-West Miyajima Ferry, Chugoku JR bus in the area.

※ To get more information. Please visit Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass website operated by West Japan Railway Company.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass at a valid exchange office in a major JR station.

Setouchi Area Pass

Leave Kansai and Hakata behind on your way to an adventure to the Setouchi area and the surrounding San'in area on the Sanyo Shinkansen.

※ To get more information. Please visit Setouchi Area Pass website operated by West Japan Railway Company.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Setouchi Area Pass at Kansai-airport Sta., Shin-Osaka Sta, Osaka Sta., Oakayama Sta., Hiroshima Sta., Hakata Sta., Takamatsu Sta., Matsuyama Sta., Warp Takamatsu Branch or Warp Mnatsuyama Branch.

Hokuriku Arch Pass

Unlimited use of ordinary car reserved seat on Hokuriku Shinkansen (Tokyo to Kanazawa), limited express, and local (including rapid service) trains (non-reserved seat on "HARUKA") and all Tokyo Monorail lines within the free usage area.

※ To get more information. Please visit Hokuriku Arch Pass website operated by JR East and West.

After you arrive in Japan, you have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your Hokuriku Arch Pass at a valid exchange office in a major JR station.

Present your Exchange Order and obtain your JAPAN RAIL PASS after you arrive in Japan. You have to turn in your Exchange Order (with your passport) to receive your JAPAN RAIL PASS at a JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange office in a major JR station.

• You cannot use an Exchange Order when you travel on JR lines. Turn in your Exchange Order and obtain your Japan Rail Pass at one of JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange offices.
  (Please note the office hours and closing days)
• Your Exchange Order must be turned in for a Japan Rail Pass within three months of the date the Order was issued.
  (for example, an Exchange Order issued on 15 April would have to be turned in by 14 July)
• At the time of the exchange you will be asked to fill in a short application form and to show your passport with the Temporary Visitor stamp that you received on entry into Japan. You must show your passport* and this stamp to process the Rail Pass Exchange Order.
• Without your passport, the pass exchange will not be made. (A photocopy of your passport is also not acceptable because you must show the "Temporary Visitor" stamp in it.)
• If you are a Japanese national resident in a country other than Japan and with permanent resident status in that country, please show, in addition to your passport, documents testifying to your status.
• The type of PASS described on the Exchange Order cannot be changed.

After turning in your Exchange Order for a JAPAN RAIL PASS, you can make seat reservations at a "Midori-no-madoguchi" (ticket office).

• Please apply for reserved seat tickets at the JR ticket counter (Midori-no-madoguchi) or JR Travel Service Centre (Twinkle Plaza) in the major JR Hokkaido stations.
• You can get a reserved seat ticket for free of charge by telling a boarding date, name of the train and the section you take a train.

Online reservation (JR-EAST Train Reservation)

• Seat reservations can be made by using JR-EAST Train Reservation.
• Tickets reserved online should be collected before 9:00 p.m. of the day before you ride the train at a designated station or JR Travel Service Centre during office hours.
• As JR-EAST Train Reservation cannot be used if you plan to collect your tickets on the same day as you ride a train, please receive the reserved seat tickets by showing your Hokkaido Rail Pass at JR Ticket Counter (Midori-no-madoguchi).
• Seats for sightseeing trains and temporary trains cannot be reserved.