March 16, 2024 Hokuriku Shinkansen extends to Tsuruga. In this video, I’d like to go over what will change in March 2024 for Japanese trains focusing on the topics that might affect your travel.
Hokuriku Shinkansen Project official site: https://www.jrtt.go.jp/english/project/hokuriku.html
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Chapters:
0:00 Schedule Change on March 16, 2024
0:50 Suica update
2:13 Tobu Railway
5:20 JR East
7:34 JR West
11:00 JR Hokkaido
11 Comments
You can get a digital suica card on your iPhone for free and deposit money onto it. I recently discovered it on my trip to Japan 🎉
Great roundup of all the changes! The trend towards all reserved seats on limited expresses seems to be speeding up. I think JR Hokkaido has done or will do that with all their expresses too. I expect the Hokiriku Arch Pass will get a 30-50% hike since the JR East passes went up by like 50% this year. Right now it's a bargain still.
Thank you for this! It’s so helpful to foreign travellers like me 😊
Thanks for the information, Ken…By the way, do you have any idea regarding on the weather in Tokyo on the month of January? how cold it is…Thanks
Thank you! Very helpful news about the Suica card
Wath a coincidence
Me and a friend are going first time to Japan and arrive on March 16
Love your videos, we arrived in Tokyo on Saturday and thanks to your videos we’ve had a hassle free trip so far.
Thanks Kenchan. That is a lot of changes to think about!
Do you know when the Sapporo shinkansen station will be available?
I'll keep them in mind since my friend and I will land in Japan on January 4, hopefully the pasmo passport will still be available (I'm so happy my visa application got approved, it'll be 15 days worth of fun and adventure)
So in essence, we have to speed up if we want to explore the countryside. Because they are private company, they have to make money, they can't keep station where noone go because it cost too much.
I didn't think Japan where closing railway.It's sad but i hope i can visited where i wanted to go before it's too late.
Great video man!