I found the whole breakdown of the various trains I took on my 52,000-yen Japan Rail Pass last Fall, prices and all.<\/p>\n
They’re in no particular order, but that’s because I’m too lazy to sort them out properly.<\/span><\/p>\n So I won. I got my money’s worth. <\/span><\/p>\n You can see that shinkansen<\/em> trains are pretty darn expensive. There are special fees that come into play just for using one, and those jack up the price considerably. A shinkansen<\/em> train will get you where you want to go twice as fast as a limited express train will, so that’s the cost of convenience.<\/p>\n You can also see that getting a green car pass for ~72,000 yen would still have paid for itself, although actually the fares would have been much higher, because there’s an extra green car fee you pay for green car tickets.<\/p>\n My advice– if you’re going to a lot of places, get a JR pass, if the math works out<\/strong>. But don’t bother with the green car<\/strong>.<\/p>\n One thing you should do is plan out where you’re going, and use the hyperdia website to see if it’s worth your money to get a JR pass<\/strong>. The nice thing about hyperdia is that it lists the fares for each train as well, so you can figure out how much you’d save by getting\/not getting a pass.<\/p>\n Also, prices vary for JR passes based on the duration of the pass. My pass was a 21-day pass. The 7 and 14-day passes are cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found the whole breakdown of the various trains I took on my 52,000-yen Japan Rail Pass last Fall, prices and all. They’re in no particular order, but that’s because I’m too lazy to sort them out properly. Sendai -> Tokyo 10,390 (Shinkansen) Nagano -> Sendai 15,220 (Shinkansen) Nagoya -> Nagano 6,390 (Limited Express) Osaka […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[894,27,29,28,895],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-travel","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan-rail-pass","tag-jr-pass","tag-shinkansen","tag-travel","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nTotal: 88,420 yen. <\/span><\/p>\n