Kansai–Hokuriku Area Pass: seven-day routes, exchange and seats

Alongside the Shinkansen endpoints above, main destinations include Osaka · 大阪, Kyoto · 京都, Kanazawa · 金沢, Toyama · 富山 and Fukui · 福井.

The mapped Hokuriku branches include Himi · 氷見, Johana · 城端 and Minami-Otari · 南小谷. For a visit to Kurobe-Unazukionsen · 黒部宇奈月温泉, the included Shinkansen station is not a promise of coverage for onward sightseeing railways. Compare each connecting service with the map and the private-railway exceptions below.

Compare it with ordinary tickets for a journey from Kansai to Kanazawa or Toyama. Travel to Tokyo · 東京, or west of Okayama towards Hiroshima · 広島 or Hakata · 博多, needs tickets outside this pass’s coverage.

You need a non-Japanese government-issued passport and Temporary Visitor status. Japanese nationals are not eligible. Carry your passport during travel. Buying duplicate passes for the same use period or sharing one pass between travellers is not permitted.

The seven-day pass costs JPY 19,000 adult or JPY 9,500 child. The Japanese terms assess child age, 6–11, on the payment date. Check the actual selling option’s price and currency on the seller’s page. Adult fares apply from age 12.

Each adult or child pass holder may bring up to two children aged 1–5 free. A child pass is needed for the third or any additional child, for a child using a separate reserved seat, or for a child travelling alone. Infants under one year travel free.

The pass runs from 00:00 on the start date to 24:00 on the seventh day, Japan time. If you are still on a train at midnight at the end of validity, basic-fare coverage continues until you exit the gate and train-charge coverage until you get off that same train.

An agency E-MCO is an electronic exchange order, not the actual pass. Exchange it before travelling; the voucher alone cannot be used to board.

Eligible local, rapid, special rapid and limited-express trains within the map are covered as well as the designated Shinkansen sections. The map includes Noto Railway from Nanao · 七尾 to Wakuraonsen · 和倉温泉, designated Kyoto Tango Railway routes and Wakayama Electric Railway from Wakayama · 和歌山 to Kishi · 貴志. On Super Hakuto or Super Inaba via Chizu Express, the Kamigori · 上郡–Tottori · 鳥取 section needs separate fares.

IR Ishikawa Railway between Kanazawa and Tsubata · 津幡, Ainokaze Toyama Railway between Takaoka · 高岡 and Toyama, and Hapi-Line Fukui between Echizen-Hanando · 越前花堂 and Fukui are permitted only for through travel connecting to JR. Getting off at intermediate stations or travelling outside the permitted section requires separate fares. Only local trains qualify on Ainokaze Toyama and Hapi-Line Fukui.

Eligible local West Japan JR Bus routes within the map are covered; highway buses are excluded. Take one numbered boarding ticket per person. When getting off, show the pass to the driver and put only the numbered ticket in the fare box.

Exchange within three months of issue and no later than the day of use. A paper MCO needs a designated counter. An E-MCO can use a compatible PASSPORT-labelled machine or counter. Check the purchase-channel column in the location table; a passport-reader symbol alone does not confirm support for this product.

Direct WEST-TR collection needs your reservation number, chosen four-digit identification number, original payment card and passport. If your passport has no IC chip, use a ticket office. WEST-TR requires advance card payment and does not accept virtual or numberless cards.

Choose your language, then Receive Reserved Tickets and Exchange Order (E-TICKET). Scan the order’s QR code or enter its number, select the start date, and read the conditions and privacy information. Scan the photo page of your IC-chip passport. If the passport cannot be read, use a counter.

Ordinary Car reservations are unlimited. Machines record up to six reservation marks; use a counter after reaching that limit. For covered Green or GranClass travel, the pass covers the basic fare only: pay the required train and class charges separately. Local-train Green travel needs its Green ticket, and A-seat needs its seating ticket. S Work requires separate basic fare and train charges. Sunrise Seto and Sunrise Izumo are excluded, including Nobi Nobi seats.

For passes collected from a travel-agency counter from 1 October 2024 onwards, the current Japanese conditions allow reservations at compatible machines and JR ticket counters in the pass area, as well as JTB and Nippon Travel Agency counters. The restriction on machine reservations applies to agency-collected passes received by 30 September 2024. Use a ticket counter for a train or seat the machine cannot reserve.

Agency exchange-order holders reserve after collecting the actual pass. Direct WEST-TR purchasers may reserve up to six trains before collection, with a combined limit of 28 reservation, change and cancellation transactions. Check the applicable processing deadline, including departure of the first reserved train.

Reserved-seat-only trains have no unreserved car. If you miss your train, reserve a later service. Standing is available only on a service with an officially offered standing arrangement when it is full at the time of your reservation request.

After collection, you cannot change the pass type or validity start date. Change or cancel a reserved seat at a JR-WEST ticket counter before that train departs. For an agency-counter-collected pass, JTB and Nippon Travel Agency counters also handle seat changes. Cancelling a seat does not remove the reservation marks printed on the pass.

For an unexchanged agency MCO or E-MCO, ask the original seller for a refund within one year of issue. Fees and other conditions depend on the seller and product.

After exchanging an agency order, an unused pass can be refunded before its start date or during validity at a designated exchange counter. The fee is 10% of the sale price, rounded down to JPY 10, minimum JPY 220. Passes sold domestically by an agency must be returned to the selling agency.

For a direct WEST-TR purchase, the fee is JPY 560 per person. Before collection, cancel online before the earliest reserved train departs and within WEST-TR operating hours on the validity start date. After collection, take an unused pass to a WEST-TR collection counter before validity starts or during validity; if seats are reserved, the earliest reserved train’s departure is the deadline.

There is no refund after use begins, or for service cancellation or delay. Lost passes are not reissued.