Sanyo-San’in Area Pass: seven days, Hakata and Tottori routes

Shin-Osaka · 新大阪; Hakata · 博多; Hiroshima · 広島; Tottori · 鳥取; Takamatsu · 高松; Kamigori · 上郡; Chizu · 智頭; Kojima · 児島; Utazu · 宇多津.

Compare it for travel from Kansai to Hiroshima and Hakata combined with visits to Sanin destinations such as Tottori. Coverage of Hakata does not mean that all onward trains around Kyushu from Fukuoka are included.

You need a passport issued by a government outside Japan and Temporary Visitor status. Japanese nationals cannot use the pass. Bring every traveller’s passport at collection and carry it while travelling.

The seven-day price is JPY 23,000 for adults and JPY 11,500 for children. Japanese conditions assess children as aged 6–11 on the payment date. Check Trip.com’s actual option price on the purchase screen.

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.

Exchange a travel-agency voucher for the actual pass before boarding. The electronic voucher’s QR code is not a boarding ticket.

Ordinary Car reserved and non-reserved seating on the Shin-Osaka–Hakata Sanyo Shinkansen and covered JR local, Rapid, Special Rapid and limited express services are included. The map includes Chizu Express between Kamigori and Chizu and specified Kyoto Tango Railway sections. Shikoku coverage shows Kojima–Utazu–Takamatsu; this is not an all-Shikoku pass.

Covered local West Japan JR Bus routes are included, but its highway services are excluded. JR Chugoku Bus coverage includes local routes, Hiroshima Meipuru-pu and the Super Hagi highway bus. Take one numbered slip per person when boarding; show the pass when getting off and put only the slip in the fare box.

Exchange the voucher within three months of issue and no later than the travel date. A paper MCO needs a designated counter. An E-MCO can use a machine or counter supporting this product and purchase channel. The exchange table lists counter service only at Takamatsu Station.

Ordinary Car reservations are unlimited. After six machine reservations, use a counter. Reserve before boarding; trains with only reserved seats have no non-reserved seating.

Agency vouchers need exchange for the actual pass before seat reservations. Direct official WEST-TR purchases can reserve up to six trains before collection. This direct-purchase feature does not apply to agency vouchers.

Green seats, sleeping cars and A-seat require separate charges. Sanyo Shinkansen S Work cars require both separate basic fares and train charges. The Shin-Osaka–Tokyo Tokaido Shinkansen and Hakata–Kagoshima-Chuo (鹿児島中央) Kyushu Shinkansen are excluded.

For an unexchanged voucher, contact the selling agency within one year of issue; its product-specific fees apply. After collection, an unused agency-exchanged pass has a 10% fee, minimum JPY 220; a direct WEST-TR purchase has a JPY 560 fee per person. Application locations and deadlines differ by channel. No refund is available after use starts or because of suspended or delayed services.