Hi, my family of 4 arrives Haneda airport at 5.30am on 29th March. We need to get to Kyoto on the same day with our JR pass. I saw that in your previous post this is the way to go:
First take the Tokyo monorail to Hamamatsucho, here transfer to the Yamamote line to Tokyo station (only 6 minutes away). At Tokyo you can board the Shinkansen directly to Kyoto station!
1) May I know how long this trip will take?
2) I see that the JR centre doesn't open until 7.45am so we can't activate our pass. does that mean we can't start our travel until then? or is there a bus to get us to tokyo station first and we can activate our JR pass there so we could catch an earlier train?
Thanks
Vic