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Easy way from Narita airport to Takayama station

June Kue
June Kue
about 7 years ago
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Dear All, I'm planing 10 days trip to Japan with my family of 8 adults and one children at 7 years old in December 2018, the first stop we would like to visit is the beautiful old town in Takayama (highly recommended by my friends that must go in Japan ) Following is my tentative itinerary for the 10 days.

Narita Airport -2 night in Takayama - 1 night in Shirakawa-go - 5 night in Tokyo

Need your advice is my itinerary good to go ? do I really need to buy a JR pass for my trip ? Is the JR pass cover all the places that I mentioned above? What is the easy way from Narita airport to Takayama station and how long is the journey? (appreciate if you can give me more detail and clear direction, am kind of lost when looking at the train map, especially with my litter girl and we will exhausted after 7 hour flight, need to reach hotel as fast as possible ) I also realized the hyperdia.com timetable do not have any schedule in December 2018.

Thanks and Best Regards
June Kue

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Daniel-san
19118 posts
about 7 years ago
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Hi June,

A one way Tokyo - Takayama is around ¥ 14,920 or double for a return. This already pays for a 7 day JR Pass. So any additional travel with the JR Pass, think of local transport in Tokyo, to the airport and perhaps even a day trip somewhere.

The JR Pass would not cover the bus to Shirakawago - Takayama but nevertheless, you'd make good savings on your other traels.

Train schedules are released about 3 months in advance, so I don't know the exact time table for Dec but it won't be a lot different from what it is now.

The route would look as follows: Take the Narita Express from Narita Airport to Tokyo station (about 60 minutes). Then take the Hikari Shinkansen to Nagoya (about 100 minutes) and finally take the Hide Wide view express to Takayama (about 140 minutes).

Hope this helps,
Daniel

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