17-day trip from Osaka to Tokyo

Hello there,

A 14 day JR Pass will indeed be a great option! The JR Pass can be used for most of your itinerary, however there are parts that can't be reached using the JR Pass. These are:

Osaka - Koya-san
The bus to Kamikochi
Travel from Nagano station - Snow monkey park
Local travel within Hakone.

All other is included and you can make very good savings using the 14 day JR Pass.

I would recommend using the 14 day RJ Pass from 3-10, this way you get the best possible coverage. Koya is not too far from Osaka and you could use a Koya Heritage Pass instead.

Hope this helps,
Daniel

Daniel,

Thanks for your help. When I calculate the costs of our itinerary it's a total of 61.990 yen. But with a JR Pass and the costs for parts that can't be reached with JR Pass it is a total of 66.071 yen. Or is this not correct (we've let Kanazawa out of our itinerary)?

Osaka- Koyasan: 2860
Osaka - Hiroshima: 9710
Hiroshima - Miyajima - Hiroshima: 1180
Hiroshima -Himeji -Kyoto: 6700
Kyoto - Nara - Kyoto: 1420
Kyoto - Takayama: 9500
Takayama -Kamikochi: 2730
Kamikochi - Matsumoto: 4450
Matsumoto -Nagano: 1140
Nagano - Snow Monkeys - Nagano: 2800
Nagano- Hakone - Tokyo: 12000
Tokyo -Nikko: 2720
total: 61990

JR PASS 14 days 46,390 + 2860 + 2730 + 4450 + 2800 + 4000 = 63230

Thanks a lot!

Hi again!

That looks good to me, note that traveling to Nikko can cost a lot more if you use the Shinkansen. This is also covered by the JR Pass. Also not sure where you get the 4000 figure. However the rest looks good.