What bus cards are there in Japan? How to take a bus in Japan?

You can buy a bus card to go to Japan. Several kinds of bus cards are not bad. Friends can buy according to their own needs. The following small series will briefly introduce these bus cards and see which one is convenient for you to travel.

JRPASS seems to be very famous in Japan because it is often asked. In fact, if you need to go back and forth without crossing Japan, this pass is really a natural egg.

Whether from Osaka to Tokyo or from Osaka to Tokyo, you must buy JRpass from all over Japan. Seven days all Japan JR

Pass pass28300 yen. Almost 1500 RMB. Then we just need to calculate whether we can spend an extra 28,300 yen if we buy tickets normally.

First of all, the transportation from Kansai Airport to Osaka and downtown Osaka basically doesn't need JR, and only going to Osaka Universal Studios will cost JR,500 yen (round trip). You don't need JR for transportation in Kyoto, but you may only need it when you go to Lanshan and Fuwa to see Yamato, even if JR is 700 yen.

Tokyo's JR Yamanote Line and Central Line are still very convenient, but because the subway is also very developed, JR can't go to many places, so I think Tokyo spends up to 500 yen on JR every day. Suppose you stay in Tokyo for 4 days, it will be 2000 yen.

Finally, the traffic between cities, assuming that all JR and Shinkansen are used. Osaka-Kyoto 560 yen, Kyoto-Tokyo free seat 13080.

Then all the expenses that may be spent on JR are 500 (round trip to Universal Studios) +700 (transportation in Kyoto) +2000 transportation in Tokyo +560 (Osaka-Kyoto)+13080 (Kyoto-Tokyo) = 16840 yen.

This is the result of many calculations, and it is still cheaper than JRpass 10000 yen or more.

Other transportation cards and two-day tickets are the issues that freelancers are most concerned about, and they are also the issues that I spend the most time studying, but I am afraid that the final result will make everyone a little disappointed, that is, "I have a full imagination, but it is actually very skinny."

Why is this? My answer is that the money saved is at the expense of the comfort of travel. If you don't lose money, you must rush hard and take a quick look at the flowers and turn the trip you should have enjoyed into a trip to come here on time.

Analysis of watermelon brand and ICOCA brand

Watermelon card is a stored-value transportation card pioneered by JR East Japan, and ICOCA card is pioneered by JR West Japan, which is the difference between them. The function and usage are basically the same, and they all have the function of electronic wallet. If you are only in Tokyo, you only need to buy a watermelon card. If you are only in Kansai, you only need to buy an ICOCA card. But if you are from Tokyo to Kansai and back to Tokyo, you only need to buy a watermelon card, or from Kansai to Tokyo and back to Kansai, you only need to buy an ICOCA card, because these two cards are common in Kansai and Tokyo.

Then the problem is coming. Since it is universal, why is it so complicated? This is because they still have some minor problems in buying and returning cards. If they enter Osaka and leave east, or enter Osaka and leave east, they will meet them.

First of all, watermelon cards are only sold in Tokyo. There are automatic card vending machines at Narita, Haneda Airport and JR Station, and there are also manual card vending machines at the ticket counter of the station. The point is that you can use it in Kansai, but there is no place to return it to you. Then when you leave Tokyo, you must return the card, and then go to Kansai to buy the ICOCA card. In the same way, the ICOCA card in Kansai must also be returned when leaving Kansai.

Some people say, is it possible not to return it? Yes, but you have to lose a deposit of 500 yen as the business card printing fee. This 500 yen was deducted when I bought the card. For example, if you spend 2000 yen to buy a card, you can only use 1500 yen.

In addition to the deposit of 500 yen, a handling fee of 250 yen will be deducted when returning the watermelon card, but this handling fee can be waived because the watermelon card can be used for consumption in addition to paying the fare. For example, convenience stores, fast food restaurants and even shopping malls, as long as the cashier is marked with a watermelon card, it means that you can pay with the watermelon card and brush off all the balance inside. If the balance is zero when the card is returned, there is no handling fee of 250 yen. If the balance exceeds 250 yen, the balance after deducting the handling fee of 250 yen will be returned to you together with the deposit of 500 yen. If the balance is less than 250 yen, how much will be deducted, and then the deposit of 500 will be refunded. So we always return all the cards as zero balance.

Pay attention to the change of balance when using watermelon card. There is a query in the card vending machine. Because once your balance is not enough to pay the full fare, you can't enter the station, similar to the Singapore subway card. The system will freeze all fares, and then settle according to the platform where you leave the station, and then the fee will be deducted.

If you make a detailed itinerary and have a rough budget for the fare amount, you can decide the purchase amount according to your actual situation. Watermelon swiping into the station is slightly more favorable than buying a one-way ticket, such as swiping 170 yuan as long as 165 yuan. We bought a card for 3000 yen directly in Tokyo, and ended up spending several hundred yen. If I had bought a 2000 yen card, I would have recharged it on the way.

Although there are all kinds of transportation cards in Japan, except watermelon card and ICOCA card, others can be ignored. Within the scope of other cards, these two cards are basically universal.

I didn't buy an ICOCA card in Kansai, but I used a one-day ticket for Osaka, a one-day ticket for Kyoto bus, a watermelon card for Tokyo, and no one-day ticket for subway. Why didn't we buy an ICOCA card in our relationship? It's because during our four-and-a-half-day trip in Kansai, we basically didn't need public transportation for one day, bought a one-day ticket for one day, took a bus ticket for one day from Osaka to Nara to Kyoto, and took a half-day trip from Kansai to Tokyo, so there are not many places where we can use the ICOCA card. I didn't buy it because I had to return the card when I bought it, and I had to consider how to use the balance.

1 How cheap is Kansai Travel Card?

If you choose Osaka as your base, travel to and from Kansai areas such as Nara and Kyoto, and stay in Osaka, it is recommended to use Kansai Pass.

Kansai Travel Card is KANSAITHRU.

A pass is a kind of bus card. With this card, you can take the subway, private railway and bus in Kansai area for free. The card can also be used for sightseeing in Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, Wakayama and Koyasan. Bus cards are divided into two types: 2 days and 3 days. The prices are 4,000 yen and 5,200 yen respectively, and the children (primary school students) are 2,000 yen and

2600 yen, which can be used intermittently during the validity period (for example, a 3-day card can be used on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Wednesday).

Our itinerary must meet the average transportation fee of 2,000 yen per day on the second day, or 1.733 yen on the third day, so it is cost-effective to use Kansai Travel Card. However, our traffic is one-way, and there is no turning back. The most one day, from Osaka to Nara, and then from Nara to Kyoto, plus two trains from Kyoto, the total cost is only 1000 yen. There are bus tickets for only 500 yen the next day, so the Kansai Travel Card is not suitable for us.

If your trip is based in Osaka, you can really save money by taking a one-day trip to the cities around Osaka in the morning, returning at night and taking the subway bus in the city.

2. One-day ticket for Nara Turtledove and Kyoto bus

See the Nara and Kyoto traffic section above. Personally, I think the one-day ticket of Kyoto bus is the most cost-effective, and there is no one. If you plan the itinerary of major scenic spots in Kyoto, you can save a lot of bus transportation fees at the end of the day.

Turtledove coupons don't mean much.

3. One-day, two-day and three-day tickets for Tokyo transportation

One ticket for Tokyo Metro 1 day: 7 10 yen for Tokyo Metro and 360 yen for children. メトロ(Tokyo)

Metro) is one of the two major subway systems in Tokyo, including nine subways (ginza line, Fudu New Line, Chiyoda Line, Hibiya Line, Marunouchi Line, Youle Town Line, Banzangmen Line and East-West Line).

On the whole, it has covered most important scenic spots and is much denser than the stations on the Duying Line. If the novice or itinerary is almost in downtown Tokyo, it is actually more than enough. It is said that foreigners can buy it in 600 yuan in one day at Haneda Airport.

Two days to roll 980 yuan (for two consecutive days), one day only needs 490 yuan, and there is no limit to the number of sheets. Take the Tokyo Metro 170 yuan, and you can save money by taking the subway four times a day or more.

B. Du Ying Metro 1 day pass: 700 yuan for adults and 350 yuan for children.

, you can take four subway lines (including Asakusa Line, Tamami Line, Shinjuku Line and Edo Line) and all services of Du Ying Bus, Dudian Arakawa Line and Limuli Line. The most basic fare when boarding is 180 yuan, and the longest journey is 4 10 yuan. Generally, you can walk more than four times a day, which saves money.

C subway * * * pass 1 day ticket: Tokyo subway line+Du Ying subway line (A+B and excluding Du Ying bus line, Dudian Arakawa line and Nepal daily line), adult 1000 yuan, child 500 yuan. Although this combination covers all subway lines in Tokyo, it takes more than six times to get back 1000 yen.

D.JR one-day ticket: adult 750 yuan, child 370 yuan, within the green JR route. The most basic fare for JR boarding is 140 yuan. You can save money by taking more than six trips a day.

These are the four most commonly used coupons. Some people want to say that in Tokyo, if you only run three points a day, you can save money by taking a bus from the starting point and finally returning to the starting point, at least four times.

But the problem is, if all your points are on the Yamanote Line, then you have to go to five points and take the bus six times to get home. Can you do it?

If you use the A ticket Tokyo subway ticket, can you reach all the points through the Tokyo subway? Well, I admit that the subway in Tokyo is very developed, and it's not that you can't take it all. But in order to use the ticket, is it really cost-effective to give up the nearest Du Ying subway or Yamanote Line and take a big detour?

If C coupon is used, 1000 yen only adds four bus lines, and other buses are basically unnecessary. How intensive is that trip?

In fact, the most convenient one should be A+B+D, that is, Du Ying, Tokyo Metro and JR all include 1750 yen, and I can use it for several days.

Therefore, everyone must first ignore the coupons and arrange their trips according to their own needs, and then see if they can use coupons. You can't put the cart before the horse and arrange a trip in order to use coupons. People are tired and have nothing to enjoy.