TOKYO – East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is selling its JR East Pass Special – a flexible three day rail pass exclusively for international tourists in Japan.
The JR East Pass Special allows unlimited ordinary class rail travel on the JR East network which covers the area from the Izu Peninsula south of Tokyo to the northern tip of Honshu, on any three days within a one month period between September 1 and December 31, 2009.
At 10,000 yen (A$125.49) for adults and 5000 yen (A$62.75) for children aged six to eleven, JR East Pass Special compares well with JR East’s standard discount tickets like the Flexible 4 Days and 5 Consecutive Days passes that cost 20,000 yen (A$250.98).
Like all JR East passes, the JR East Pass Special covers travel on all JR East lines and trains, including its five shinkansen (bullet train) lines, limited express services, including the Narita Express airport service, express and local trains.
The JR East Pass Special promotion coincides with JR’s Destination Niigata Campaign, a tourism promotion focusing on the Sea of Japan coast prefecture of Niigata, from October through December 2009.
Niigata City, the prefecture’s capital, can be accessed from Tokyo by the Niigata shinkansen.
For more details and conditions, log on to JR East Pass at www.jreast.co.jp/e/eastpass/
