Kansai-Hiroshima Area Pass: five days, routes and exchange

Shin-Osaka · 新大阪; Hiroshima · 広島; Takamatsu · 高松.

Compare it with individual tickets for travel from Kansai to Hiroshima and nearby cities. Continuing by Shinkansen from Hiroshima to Hakata (博多) is outside this pass’s coverage.

You need a passport issued by a government outside Japan and Temporary Visitor entry status. Your own original passport and entry status are checked when collecting the physical pass. You cannot buy or exchange the same pass for overlapping validity periods.

Official five-day prices checked on 6 October 2026 are JPY 17,000 for adults and JPY 8,500 for children. The Japanese conditions define children as aged 6–11 on the payment date. Also check the child-option conditions at your seller.

Each adult or child pass holder can accompany up to two children aged 1–5 free. A child pass is required for the third child onwards, for a child using their own reserved seat or travelling alone. Children under one travel free.

The pass is valid for 5 consecutive days, from midnight at the start of day one to midnight at the end of the final day. If the same train journey continues past midnight on that final day, the basic fare remains valid until you leave the gate and the train charge until you leave that train. This does not cover unlimited new journeys the following day.

A paper MCO or electronic E-MCO bought through a travel agency is not the physical boarding pass. Exchange it at a designated location first. JR’s conditions allow exchange within three months of issue and no later than the travel date.

The Sanyo Shinkansen is covered between Shin-Osaka and Hiroshima. Alongside covered JR conventional lines, Kyoto Tango Railway and Wakayama Electric Railway are included. Conventional trains to Iwakuni (岩国) are covered, but the Sanyo Shinkansen west of Hiroshima is excluded, as are the Tokaido and Kyushu Shinkansen.

Covered West Japan JR Bus local routes are included, excluding the Kanazawa (金沢) area. JR Chugoku Bus local routes in Hiroshima and Hiroshima Meipuru-pu are also included. On West Japan JR Bus, take a numbered slip when boarding, show the pass to the driver when getting off and put only the slip in the fare box. Do not put the pass in the box.

The official table effective from April 2026 lists exchange counters including Kyoto (京都), Shin-Osaka, Osaka (大阪), Kansai Airport (関西空港) and Hiroshima. Paper vouchers need a counter; electronic vouchers can use supported counters or machines. A passport-reader symbol alone does not establish that a station can exchange your voucher.

Ordinary Car reserved-seat use is unlimited. After exchanging the actual pass, book through a supported machine or JR counter. Machines handle up to six reservations; from the seventh, use a counter. This is not a limit of six uses of the pass.

With a pass bought directly through official WEST-TR, you can reserve up to six trains before collecting the physical pass. Agency MCOs and E-MCOs cannot use that process before exchange. Exchange the actual pass first, then book locally.

Trains with only reserved seats have no non-reserved seating. If you miss your train, reserve a seat on a later one. Standing accommodation applies only to services that provide it and are full when you request the reservation.

Before exchanging an agency voucher, ask the seller about cancellation. An exchanged unused pass can be refunded under official conditions at an exchange counter or another authorised location before its start date or within validity. The fee is 10% of the sale price, rounded down to the nearest JPY 10, with a minimum of JPY 220. No refund is available once use starts; lost passes are not reissued.