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will
will
almost 12 years ago
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Hi,

I needed some help to see if we should purchase rail passes for 2 people. We will be flying in to Osaka in a week and will be staying with family. We would make Osaka are home base and do day trips and a couple overnighters.

3/14- 2days osaka
3/17- train to nozawa onsen 4nights
3-21- Train to takayama-shirakawago 1 night or 2 nights
3/22-25 osaka
3/25, kyoto 2 nights
3/27-3/30 osaka and maybe a visit to lake biwa or kobe

We will be using the subway around osaka when we are in the city.

Aloha and Thank you
Will

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Daniel-san
18919 posts
almost 12 years ago
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Hi Will,

Nice trip you are planning!

I think it could be worth getting a 7-Day JR-Pass if you can plan your long distance travel in the period of use. To make sure, I made a little list of ticket prices so see if a JR-Pass would be a good option.
Osaka -> Nozawa Onsen ¥ 12,000
Nozawa Onsen --> Takayama ¥ 9,650
Takayama --> Osaka ¥ 10,310

For a total of ¥ 31,960 the 7-Day JRPass is ¥ 28.300 Yen saving you at least ¥ 3,660. If you used it from the 17th thru 23rd you could use it for all of the above trip + have one extra day of use.

For the rest, local travel in Kansai is not very expansive so a JR-Pass is usually not a very economic option for that.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

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will
will
2 posts
over 11 years ago

Thank you Daniel-san

You are very helpful

Aloha

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