What is cheaper 7 or 14 day JR Pass with this schedule

Hi there,

The issue I see here is that a 7 day JR Pass would not fully cover your most costly routes. Activating it on the 6th would would mean that the last day of usage is the 12th until midnight. There would not really be a point in buying a 7 day JR Pass and then pay for one of the expensive routes. Maybe you could return to Tokyo on the 12th by taking a late train? This would be a minimal change in terms of time spend in each city.

Otherwise I think you could look at using a 14 day JR Pass, covering the full route, local travel around Tokyo and using the Narita Express to/from the airport will pay of the price difference with a 7 day pass.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Sorry, the 7 day pass is based around activating it on the 9th of May not the 6th. If we did the 7 day we would separately pay for the trip to Nagano. That way we have the pass for the most expensive parts of the trip i.e. Nagano to Kyoto and Kyoto back to Tokyo.

I did a basic calculation and as I said above doing 7 days plus paying for the airport one way and to Nagano seemed a bit cheaper but again not sure if I did that correctly.

Hi again,

What numbers did you use? They depend on the route you'd use from Nagano - Kyoto. As I calculated this, it would be lightly more expensive to get a 7 day JR Pass.