"Smart Ex" Get the Cheapest Shinkansen Fares Without the JR Pass.

shinkansen also called bread tray is a common transportation to travel between cities in Japan today I'll show you how to make online reservation for shinkansen from abroad and about discount fares of shinkansen that are available for you and how to actually get on the shin consent at the station with the reservation you have this video is for travelers who are not getting Japan radio path and who wants to patch a single ticket with your credit card before I experiment online booking system I need to share a little bit about the Jr system in Japan there are no one system that you can book for all sinkers and lines for the best prices this is because shinkansen is owned by different companies Jr is a former Japan National Railway and Now jazz network is separated to six different companies based on the different regions today I'd like to talk about the major website called smart ex this smart ex can be used to make reservation for three different linesen feature indirect service you cannot use this site to make a reservation with Japan Rail Pass this smart ex doesn't work for shin consensus going to the north of Tokyo operated by Jr East to use this smart ex site it starts from making a membership account fast you need your credit card information to be a member but your credit card won't be charged just by being a member being a member of smart ex is completely free when you purchase a ticket that credit card you registered to be used with this online booking system you can access to discount tickets that you cannot purchase at the station to compare let's see the regular affairs from Tokyo Station this might slightly change depends on the season and the train you travel from Tokyo shinkansen has three types of services depends on the number of stops the fastest service is nozomi Hikari with some more stops and Kodama that stops all stations nozomi Hikari Kodama all runs as fast as 285 kilometers per an hour which is about 177 miles per hour between Tokyo and Kyoto there is no difference in the seats and cars nor will the services including food and drinks and there are no dining cars 14117 yen chinosaka is 14720 Yen Hiroshima is 19140 Yen the discount level you can get is different depends on how early you can purchase and where your destination is so a little bit complicated Let Me Explain four major discounts that might be available depends on your destination the best fare you might want to get is hayatok 21 wide cubic 21 days before the trip the price for no dummy will be 11 820 yen to Kyoto and fifteen thousand yen to Hiroshima so you save about 20 Dr in Osaka and four leaders to Hiroshima power One Way per person you can purchase this fare only 30 days to 21 days prior to the travel date and the number of the tickets are limited so it might be difficult to get this fare for the early morning shinkansen as it can be super busy or further destinations there are fares called hayatoku which you can patches until three days prior to the travel date if available you can get almost the same fare as a 21 days prior ticket you can also save on the green car which is a fast class too the affair is called excreing higher took white the price to Kyoto is 15 000 huhan again seeing Osaka is 15940 Yen the last one is Kodama green if you take the service of Kodama which stops all stations you can get the comfortable green car for 11 200 yen and this ticket is available until three days prior to the travel date this is more than seven thousand yen discount comparing with the regular Affairs for the green car all these discounts fares are available only until three days prior to your travel date and the number of the tickets are limited so you might want to check the site as soon as you decide your travel plans [Music] now let's see the actual booking screen after you make a membership if you log into the smart ex website you are taking to this page and when you make a reservation click this reservation button and put a date and destination you'd like to travel so for example you go to Tokyo to kyolo and continue let's see the morning nozomi and that's true this not only three one five at nine or nine and this one the discounted fear is still available this 11820 yen to talk from Tokyo to Kyoto and if you click this you can see the view map on the regular car there are three seats on the ocean side and two seats on the mountain side in the mountain side you see the mount rushi if we on the sunny days so it looks like this side is more popular and you click seat and continue and it shows you the price since your credit card information in all your daily start you just click OK button and they charge to your credit card in case you want to get to refund for like a three Dollar Tree you can get 318 too and of course you can get these discount fares for the seats with oversized luggage spaces too if available in that case you can check this button and just search like regular seats I hope you are coming with me sounds difficult but all available farads for your conditions comes up as a search result so I recommend you to make account at least by a month before your travel date and check the fares available for you no matter what fairs you purchase you can change trains without any charge until the time of the departure time also you can cancel and get the refund with 320 Yen fee per ticket usually thinking Syndicate can be used for non-resolved seats in case you miss a train you have a reservation but when you miss a train that you got with the discount fares you cannot get on any later trains so I recommended to cancel or change to the later trains before the Train's departure time in case you cannot make it now let me explain how to get on the shinkansen with the reservation you have after you make reservation online there are two ways to get on scene consent on that day you can get physical tickets at a ticket machine or other counter using using a QR code which is sent to your account you can also put your reservation information to your IC card that you got in Japan the IC card can be anything issued in the major cities such as suika possible and ecocon you can connect your IC car number to the smart ex account and on your reservation page you can connect to see the information you have to the IC card now your ticket and see the information in the IC card so you can just tap the IC card to the shinkansen gate and small paper comes out from the gate machine seeing a train number and a theater information for your node make sure you take this small paper in case you purchase similar ticket for your group each person has to have IC card and you can put each seat number to each IC card sounds complicated so you can ask the staff in case you don't know how to use I hope you could get some idea of how to book sync as implicates online in case you travel in busy season you might want to check the seat one month's prior to the date of your travel thank you for watching have a great trip to Japan have a great week until the next video

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 09 2023