If you're heading to the Kansai region in Japan—which includes popular cities like Osaka and Kyoto, Kobe and Nara—one of the most puzzling scenarios that you'll encounter while planning is which transport pass to get. 🚅🇯🇵 | via philstarlife
If you're heading to the Kansai region in Japan—which includes popular cities like Osaka and Kyoto, alongside other gems like Kobe and Nara—one of the most puzzling scenarios that you'll encounter while planning is which transport pass to get.
Most, if not all Kansai passes do not allow travel on the bullet trains. At best, you may be able to ride what they call the limited express trains, which stop at fewer stations than the local trains. The 3-day Kansai area pass at present costs 5,600 yen , and this needs to be used on consecutive days. If you compare, though, a single ticket from Osaka to Kyoto is just 570 yen and from Osaka to Kobe is just 410 yen on the JR trains that take less than an hour.
Priced identically as the JR Kansai Pass , the 3-day Kansai Thru Pass allows unlimited use of the private railways on non-consecutive days. It permits unlimited rides on the subways, too, which tend to be relatively expensive in relation to distance traveled. Inside one of Hankyu's trains. Hankyu is a private railway company that travels from Osaka to Tokyo in about one hour.One of the best passes to consider when going to Kansai, especially if this is your first time to do so, would be theThe Osaka Amazing Pass costs just 3,600 yen for two days, and enables one to not only travel in Osaka using buses and trains, but also comes with a multitude of freebies. The pass includes free admission to over 50 sights in Osaka.
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