The Key To Convenient Sight-seeing in Japan!

JAPAN RAIL PASS
with the JAPAN RAIL PASS, you can freely board almost any train on Japan Railways Group ( JR Group ) lines throughout the country. For modern, convenient sight-seeing, JAPAN RAIL PASS is a traveler's best friend.
Who is eligible for a JAPAN RAIL PASS?
The JAPAN RAIL PASS is a special ticket that is available only to travelers visiting Japan from foreign countries for sight-seeing.
To be eligible to purchase a JAPAN RAIL PASS you must meet one of the following two conditions.
1. You are a foreign tourist visiting Japan from abroad for sight-seeing,
under the entry status of "temporary visitor".
"Temporary visitor" entry status, according to Japanese Immigration Law, allows a stay in Japan of 15 days or 90 days for "sight-seeing, etc."
If you apply for a "stay for sight-seeing" when you enter Japan, entry personnel will stamp your passport as "temporary visitor. "Only persons who have a passport bearing this stamp can use a JAPAN RAIL PASS.
2. You are a Japanese national living in a foreign country,
a. who is qualified to live permanently in that country,or
b. who has been living in that country for ten or more years, or
c. who is married to a non-Japanese residing in a country other than Japan.
Note: persons meeting conditions a, b, or c above must be required to show proof of same at the point of purchase of an Exchange Order.

How to Use a JAPAN RAIL PASS
Purchase an Exachange Order before you come to Japan.
●Types & Prices
There are two types of JAPAN RAIL PASS: Green (for superior-class Green cars), and Ordinary.
Each of these types is available as a 7-day, 14-day, 21-day PASS.

ADULT FARE
7day Ordinary￥28,300 7day Green ￥37,800
14day Ordinary￥45,100 Green￥61,200
21day Ordinary￥57,700 Green￥79,600
CHILD FARE Child dares apply from age of 6 to and including age 11.
Pass prices for children are 50% of adult fare.
The above are yen prices for a JAPAN RAIL PASS Exchange Order (from September2001);the actual cost in local currency is calculated based on the Banker's Selling Rate (BSR), etc., at the time the Exchange Order is issued.
The applicable price is the price valid on the date when an Exchange Order is issued.
●Turn your Exchange Order
and obtain your JAPAN RAIL PASS after you arrive in Japan
You have to turn in your Exchange Order to receive your JAPAN RAIL PASS (within three months of the date the order was issued) at an applicable JR station that has a JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange office.
●Station with JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange offices
Kushiro, Obihiro, Asahikawa, Sapporo, Shin-Chitose airport, Hakodate, Misawa, Sendai, Yamagata, Fukushima, Niigata, Kanazawa, Tsukuba, Narita Airport Terminal1 and Terminal 2, Tokyo, Ueno, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuri, Yokohama, Shin-Yokohama, Odawara, Mishima, Shizuoka, Hamamatsu, Nagoya, Kyoto, Shin-Osaka, Kansai Airport, Sannomiya, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimonoseki, Takamatsu, Kokura, Hakata, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Nishi-Kagoshima
Please contact to JR for hours and operations. Hours vary among offices on weekends andholidays. Some travel service centers are closed durling the New Year holiday period.
HOW to use a reserved seat
■Shinkansen and most limited express and ordinary express trains have reserved Green car seats and both reserved and nonreserved ordinary car seats.
A nonreserved seat can be used simply by showing your JAPAN RAIL PASS.
■To use a reserved seat, apply at any Travel Service Center or reserved-seat ticket office (Midori-no-madoguchi) at a JR station, or at a sales office of a JR-associated travel agency. There, show your JAPAN RAIL PASS, and obtain your reserved-seat ticket bofore you trip.
■Seat reservations cannot be made outside Japan.
Caution:
Please note that during crowded periods you cannot be guaranteed a seat on a specific train. The periods when seat reservations are particularly difficult to secure are as follows.
■December 29 to January 5
The New Year holiday period is the most popular travel time for Japanese people, for vacations and returns to hometown areas.
■April 29 to May 5
Due to consecutive holidays in a comfortable travel season, there is large - scale travel throughout Japan for leisure and recreation.
■August 13 to 15
Another time for traditional travel to hometown areas, called the o-bon season. JR Reservation Ticket Office

JAPAN RAIL PASS validity
●Transportation services
■The JAPAN RAIL PASS is valid for the railways, buses, and ferry boats shown below.
Railways : All JR Group Railways - Shinkansen super express (except "NOZOMI"), limited express trains, express trains, and rapid or local trains.
Buses : JR Bus Companies : Local lines of JR Bus Tohoku, JR Bus Kanto, JR Tokai Bus, West Japan JR Bus and Chugoku JR Bus.
JR Bus Divisions : Local bus lines of JR Hokkaido, JR Shikoku and JR Kyushu.
JR Highway Bus Lines: Morioka Hirosaki / Aomori ; Tokyo Nagoya / Kyoto / Osaka / Tsukuba Center ; Nagoya Kyoto / Osaka ; Osaka Tsuyama Car Shed / Kasai Flower Center
Ferry : JR Ferry (Miyajima Miyajimaguchi), except "Beetlell" (Hakata Pusan)
Remarks : The JAPAN RAIL PASS is not valid for "NOZOMI" Shinkansen trains. If you use a "NOZOMI", you must pay the ordinary fare and the limited express charge, and if in a Green car. the Green car charge. Passengers using trains on non - JR lines must pay respective fares and charges applicable to sections traveled on such lines.
●Accommodations
■Many JR trains have Green cars (superior accommodations) ; all have ordinary cars. You can use Green cars or ordinary cars with a Green - type JAPAN RAIL PASS, and you can use ordinary cars with an ordinary - type JAPAN RAIL PASS, without paying additional charges.
●Valid Period
■The valid period of a JAPAN RAIL PASS is the consecutive 7, 14, or 21 days beginning on the date the PASS is first used.
■You must specify, when you turn in your Exchange Order for your JAPAN RAIL PASS, the date that you want to start using the PASS ; it can be any date within three months from the date the Exchange Order was issued.
■Once the PASS has a starting date written on it, the date cannot be changed. Other usage conditions
1. A JAPAN RAIL PASS is strictly limited to the assigned individual ; it is not transferable from one person to another.
2. You should carry your passport during travel, and be prepared to show it if requested.
3. Refund of Exchange Order or JAPAN RAIL PASS
■An Exchange Order that has not been turned in for a JAPAN RAIL PASS can be returned to the office where it was purchased for a refund, within one year of the date of issue.
In such case a handling fee and communication fee will be subtracted from the refund.
Boston International Travel will refund handling fee of 50% of the rail pass face value.
■After an Exchange Order is turned in for a JAPAN RAIL PASS, the PASS can be turned in at any JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange office for a refund if this is done before the staring date for the use of the PASS.
(Ten percent of the yen price of the PASS will be charged as a handling fee.)
■No refund can be made for any reason on or after the stamped First Date.
■No refund on a JAPAN RAIL PASS can be made in the event of train non-operation, delay, or the like.