Comments on: Buying Tickets for Shinkansen Tokyo to Kyoto http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/ Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rodney Hughes http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-8659 Rodney Hughes Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:42:07 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-8659 Hello all, I came down to Hiroshima today (2-14-2010) on the Shinkansen Nozomi. As mentioned above the ticket purchasing requires a little planning on your part. I thought I had it wired and wound up with an unreserved seat. Then I made the mistake of getting on a reserved car. When I presented the conductor with my tickets he explained my mistake. It only cost another 1010 yen to get a reserved seat. I used a couple of websites for estimating travel time and cost. http://www.hyperdia.com/en/ and http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/ Both sites were very accurate with time and cost. Regarding the payment issue. Yen is the easiest and least troublesome way to go. I have found Japan ATM's to be a pain. However if you need to get cash a co-worker turned me on to using the ATM's at the post office. That one worked with both my credit card and debit card. That being said, the experience left me giddy and wanting more, more, more ... 3 1/2hours from Yokohama to Hiroshima (with stops). I'm going to spurge and go GREEN on the return trip. I'll post about that experience too. Hello all,
I came down to Hiroshima today (2-14-2010) on the Shinkansen Nozomi. As mentioned above the ticket purchasing requires a little planning on your part. I thought I had it wired and wound up with an unreserved seat. Then I made the mistake of getting on a reserved car. When I presented the conductor with my tickets he explained my mistake. It only cost another 1010 yen to get a reserved seat. I used a couple of websites for estimating travel time and cost. http://www.hyperdia.com/en/ and http://www.jorudan.co.jp/english/
Both sites were very accurate with time and cost. Regarding the payment issue. Yen is the easiest and least troublesome way to go. I have found Japan ATM’s to be a pain. However if you need to get cash a co-worker turned me on to using the ATM’s at the post office. That one worked with both my credit card and debit card. That being said, the experience left me giddy and wanting more, more, more … 3 1/2hours from Yokohama to Hiroshima (with stops). I’m going to spurge and go GREEN on the return trip. I’ll post about that experience too.

]]> By: Toshi Murayama http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-5181 Toshi Murayama Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:09:10 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-5181 Woops. non-smoking, first class, super express ,YES and NO, "Please" , one, two, three.... are VERY popular words for Japanese, even though he/she say "I can't speak English". So you may be say ,for example "One, Shinkansen 'Oufuku' ticket please. From TOKYO to KYOTO. non-smoking, green-sha." And you maybe buy ticket by vending machine. I wrote about it on my blog just Today. ;-) http://locutus1701e-of-borg.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-by-bullet-train-shinkansen.html ( So I googling such kind of pages.) > Futatsu Kippu (two tickets, although I’m not sure if I’m using the right counting words) Oh , it seems difficult for you. It is not wrong, but not natural sentence. Usually we say "ni-mai no Kippu", but it's difficult because it is irregular conjugation. So I recommend only say "two ticket please". Woops.
non-smoking, first class, super express ,YES and NO, “Please” , one, two, three…. are VERY popular words for Japanese, even though he/she say “I can’t speak English”.

So you may be say ,for example

“One, Shinkansen ‘Oufuku’ ticket please.
From TOKYO to KYOTO.
non-smoking, green-sha.”

And you maybe buy ticket by vending machine.
I wrote about it on my blog just Today. ;-)
http://locutus1701e-of-borg.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-by-bullet-train-shinkansen.html

( So I googling such kind of pages.)

> Futatsu Kippu (two tickets, although I’m not sure if I’m using the right counting words)

Oh , it seems difficult for you. It is not wrong, but not natural sentence.
Usually we say “ni-mai no Kippu”, but it’s difficult because it is irregular conjugation.
So I recommend only say “two ticket please”.

]]> By: Mick West http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-2509 Mick West Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:16:45 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-2509 I'm probably not the person to ask about this I'm afraid. But two points 1) As I remember there are trains from Tokyo to Kyoto about every 20 minutes. 2) There is (I think) train service from Narita Airport to Tokyo. If not, there is bus service that will take your lugggage I’m probably not the person to ask about this I’m afraid. But two points

1) As I remember there are trains from Tokyo to Kyoto about every 20 minutes.

2) There is (I think) train service from Narita Airport to Tokyo. If not, there is bus service that will take your lugggage

]]> By: Lunda http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-2508 Lunda Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:08:52 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-2508 We are going from Tokyo to Kyoto in October. We fly into Tokyo around 3:45 PM and hope to take the Shinkansen that afternoon to Kyoto. Do you know how often it departs from Tokyo? Any idea how we would coordinate getting from the airport to the train station with luggage? Thank you. We are going from Tokyo to Kyoto in October. We fly into Tokyo around 3:45 PM and hope to take the Shinkansen that afternoon to Kyoto. Do you know how often it departs from Tokyo? Any idea how we would coordinate getting from the airport to the train station with luggage? Thank you.

]]> By: Mick West http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-2439 Mick West Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:31:57 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-2439 You can see more details of this trip here: http://mickwest.com/2007/04/02/skinkansen-tokyo-kyoto-and-back/ The one-way cost was 18,160 yen, 7980 for the ticket, 5,030 for reserved seat, 5,150 for green class. You can get it a lot cheaper that that by not going green class, and not getting a reserved seat. Getting a JR pass is probably the most cost efficient way of doing it, just limits you to slightly slower trains (an extra 20 minutes, I think). You can see more details of this trip here:

http://mickwest.com/2007/04/02/skinkansen-tokyo-kyoto-and-back/

The one-way cost was 18,160 yen, 7980 for the ticket, 5,030 for reserved seat, 5,150 for green class. You can get it a lot cheaper that that by not going green class, and not getting a reserved seat. Getting a JR pass is probably the most cost efficient way of doing it, just limits you to slightly slower trains (an extra 20 minutes, I think).

]]> By: Mel http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/comment-page-1/#comment-2438 Mel Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:25:16 +0000 http://mickwest.com/2007/03/26/buying-tickets-for-shinkansen-tokyo-to-kyoto/#comment-2438 How much did it cost roundtrip? We're planning to take the Shinkansen from Tokyo-Kyoto-Tokyo in December. /thanks! How much did it cost roundtrip? We’re planning to take the Shinkansen from Tokyo-Kyoto-Tokyo in December. /thanks!

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