Official JR Pass data

Find the best-value tickets and rail passes for your Japan itinerary.

Enter each city and the date you will depart for the next stop. The planner compares explicit individual fares with eligible national and regional passes, then returns the lowest-cost valid purchase combination it can verify.

Inputs
Dated legs between station hubs
Pricing
Explicit fares and sourced pass products
Output
Lowest-cost valid purchase mix
JR pass planner

Enter each leg of your journey.

For each leg, choose a departure station, destination, and travel date. The planner compares explicit adult ordinary-class fare quotes with current pass products.

Covers all Shinkansen stations and major conventional JR limited express routes. Unsupported or stale quotes produce an incomplete result, never an estimate.

Default itinerary
Tokyo → Kyoto
Refreshable
Catalog as of 2026-08-15
Leg 1

Supported stations: Aioi, Akayu, Akita, Annaka-Haruna, Aomori, Asa, Asahikawa, Atami, Awara-Onsen, Beppu, Echigo-Yuzawa, Echizen-Takefu, and more.

Recommendation

Tickets only

Lowest-cost valid combination of explicit individual fares and pass products for this itinerary.

Supplements
0
Passes
0
Ticket legs
1
Savings vs tickets
ï¿¥0
Reconciled total
ï¿¥14,170
Sum of all displayed purchases
Catalog freshness
As of 2026-08-15
Every purchase below includes its last verification date
Season by leg
Tokyo to Kyoto on 2026-08-23: regular season
Recommended purchases
Ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto on 2026-08-23 · ￥14,170
Nozomi · ordinary-reserved · verified 2026-08-15 · quote fare-tokyo-kyoto-nozomi-regular-reserved
Fare source
Why products were excluded
  • JR EAST PASS 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR EAST PASS 10-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai Area Pass 1-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai Area Pass 2-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai Area Pass 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai Area Pass 4-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai WIDE Area Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai-Hiroshima Area Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Sanyo-San'in Area Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS All Kyushu 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS All Kyushu 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS All Kyushu 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS Northern Kyushu 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS Northern Kyushu 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR East-South Hokkaido Rail Pass 6-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hokkaido Rail Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hokkaido Rail Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hokkaido Rail Pass 10-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Tokyo Wide Pass 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hokuriku Arch Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: wrong operator.
  • Takayama-Hokuriku Area Tourist Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Alpine-Takayama-Matsumoto Area Tourist Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Ise-Kumano-Wakayama Area Tourist Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR-WEST All Area Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai-Hokuriku Area Pass 4-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hokuriku Area Pass 4-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Okayama-Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Hiroshima-Yamaguchi Area Pass 5-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Setouchi Area Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Sanyo-San'in Northern Kyushu Area Pass 7-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • Kansai Mini Pass 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
  • JR KYUSHU RAIL PASS Southern Kyushu 3-day was excluded for leg 1: outside area.
Cost-ranked alternatives
#2 Pass + supplements · ￥54,960
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 7-day, Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto. Costs ï¿¥40,790 more than tickets-only.
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 7-day · ￥50,000
Activate 2026-08-23; valid through 2026-08-29; verified 2026-08-15
Pass sourcePurchase pass
Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto · ￥4,960
Nozomi · ordinary-reserved · per-train · valid only with japan-rail-pass-ordinary-7 · verified 2026-08-15
Supplement rulesPurchase supplement
#3 Pass + supplements · ￥84,960
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 14-day, Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto. Costs ï¿¥70,790 more than tickets-only.
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 14-day · ￥80,000
Activate 2026-08-23; valid through 2026-09-05; verified 2026-08-15
Pass sourcePurchase pass
Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto · ￥4,960
Nozomi · ordinary-reserved · per-train · valid only with japan-rail-pass-ordinary-14 · verified 2026-08-15
Supplement rulesPurchase supplement
#4 Pass + supplements · ￥104,960
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 21-day, Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto. Costs ï¿¥90,790 more than tickets-only.
JAPAN RAIL PASS Ordinary 21-day · ￥100,000
Activate 2026-08-23; valid through 2026-09-12; verified 2026-08-15
Pass sourcePurchase pass
Nozomi pass-holder special ticket: Tokyo to Kyoto · ￥4,960
Nozomi · ordinary-reserved · per-train · valid only with japan-rail-pass-ordinary-21 · verified 2026-08-15
Supplement rulesPurchase supplement

Re-run after changing routes or dates.

How it decides

1. Enter each leg

Each leg has its own origin, destination, and travel date — like booking flights.

2. Use explicit quotes

The planner selects a conservative catalog season and blocks any leg without a usable, verifiable fare quote.

3. Optimize purchases

Tickets-only, passes, mixed combinations, activation windows, exclusions, and coverage rules are cost-ranked.

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What the calculator uses

Each non-final stop creates a rail leg on the departure date you enter. The final destination does not require an unused date.

Each supported leg must have a current explicit fare quote. The optimizer then compares individual tickets with eligible pass activation windows and mixed ticket-and-pass combinations.

The planner covers all Shinkansen stations nationwide plus major conventional JR limited express routes. If a route is not yet source-backed, it clearly blocks the result instead of estimating.

FAQ

Does the Japan Rail Pass cover all Shinkansen?

It covers all JR Shinkansen services except Nozomi and Mizuho, which require a special supplement ticket. It also covers many conventional JR limited express trains. The planner keeps these rules in view when recommending passes.

Is this based on AI output?

No. The planner uses explicit fare and pass records with source, effective-date, and freshness metadata. It does not generate missing fares.

Can I update the data monthly?

Yes. The fare and pass catalog is versioned separately from the UI and validates prices, sources, effective dates, freshness, and route coverage.

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