*Information specific to the JR East Pass Special:
Name of Product: JR East Pass Special
Period of sales in GDS: Sunday, 1st of August until Sunday, 14th of November 2010 (period in which an exchange PNR can be booked and issued)
Period of exchange at the train station in Japan and GDS schedules availability: Wednesday, September 1th to Tuesday, November 20th ,2010 (exchange of the GDS PNR through Sunday, 21 Nov.)
Travel Period (when already exchanged pass can be used): Wednesday, 1st of September until Tuesday, 30 November 2010 (though exchange of the GDS PNR only until Sunday, 21 Nov.)
Validity: Flexible 3 in 10 days. Users can choose any three days during a 10-day period starting from the first day of use.
Price: 10,000 yen for adults / 5,000 yen for children
*There is no youth rate. Children 12 and above are the adult rate.
Purchase eligibility: The as the standard JR East Pass.
Exchange points: The same locations in Japan as at present for the standard JR East Pass.
Product features: This is a flexible 3-day Ordinary Car pass. There is no Green Car version.
They have unlimited use of reserved and non-reserved Ordinary cars on those three days.
Please note that Green Cars, private compartments, sleeper accommodations, Liner and Home Liner type trains are not included within this pass.
*The "free area" covered by the pass includes the following:
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All JR East lines and trains: Shinkansen "bullet trains", Limited Express trains and most local trains (except for Liner and Home Liner trains).
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JR East Limited Express Hakutaka, Odoriko and Super-View Odoriko operating on non-JR lines of the Izu-Kyuko, Hokuetsu-Kyuko railways, Shinano Railways, Nagano Electric Railway, Ueda Electric Railways, and Matsumoto Electric Railways.
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JR East trains Nikko, Spacia Nikko, Kinugawa and Spacia Kinugawa operating on the non-JR Tobu line.
Eligibility: Overseas visitors to Japan who enter with a non-Japanese passport under "Temporary Visitor" status (90 days or less).
Passenger
may obtain a refund for the Exchange Voucher at the office or travel
agent that
issued it within one year from the issue according to the regulation of
each
sales office. The type of Exchange Voucher cannot be changed after arrival at Japan. After exchange into a JR East PASS, it can be refunded at the nearest exchange office in Japan only within the validity period and before the
first
date of use (in case of flexible pass before the first date of use),
with a 10%
handling fee deducted from the refund. No refund can be made for any
reason
after the first date of use.
JR East Pass has to be collected at one of exchange offices in East Japan within 3 months from the travel date in the PNR. Passenger will need to have a valid paper or e-ticket, a valid passport with the entry status of "Temporary Visitor".
The seat can be reserved without extra charge. Visit the website
“JR-EAST Shinkansen Reservation”for JR EAST Shinkansen and major
Limited Express Train in adavance using the internet.
* Reservations cannot be made for the Tokaido & Sanyo Shinkansen, or for the Kyushu Shinkansen.
This site is not available for tickets to Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and other cities on those lines.
