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Advance reservation & Luggage trolleys at stations

pawankmittal
pawankmittal
over 4 years ago
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We, 2 senior citizen couples, are visiting Japan for 10 days and want to buy a JR Green Class Pass. Want to know whether reservation in advance is compulsory for travelling on any sector on local trains as well as bullet trains?

Whether the luggage trolleys are available on most train stations in Japan?

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Daniel-san
18835 posts
over 4 years ago
Expert

Hi there,

All Green Seats on Shinkansen and Ltd. Express trains are reserved, this means that reservations will need to be made prior to boarding the train. These are free and can be made at any JR Ticket window. Local trains that have Green Seats can be boarded any time, here you just show the Green JR Pass to the train attendant.

There are no luggage trolleys at the station. If you have large pieces of luggage, consider forwarding them to your next hotel or accommodation. Most hotel staff can make these arrangements for you.

Kind regards,
Daniel

pawankmittal
pawankmittal
2 posts
over 4 years ago

Thank a lot Daniel San for providing a very useful information.

Our exact Train Travel itinerary would be as under:
Date From To Train Type
13-Sep-19 Hakone Odawra Station Kyoto ???
15-Sep-19 Kyoto Hiroshima Shinkansen
17-Sep-19 Hiroshima Osaka Shinkansen
19-Sep-19 Osaka Narita Shinkansen
Would you please let us know whether for the above 4 train travel we should buy a 7 day JR pass or it would be better to buy individual train journey tickets?

If we need to buy a JR pass can we buy the JR pass in Tokyo after reaching there. If yes, whether the price remains same as we buy when we are overseas?

Are the trains crowded around our dates of travel. What would be the train frequency on each of the above sectors.

Best Regards

Pawan

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