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Shinkansen Wakkanai Akita Shinkansen (662.6 km) Train Name: KOMACHI Akita Hachinohe Yamagata Shinkansen Nayoro (421.4 km) Akita Shinkansen "KOMACHI" Fukagawa Kamikawa Train Name: TSUBASA Mashike Morioka Asahikawa Abashiri Shinkansen "bullet trains" Yamagata Shinkansen "TSUBASA" Kitami Shinjo HOKKAIDO Shiretoko-Shari Joetsu Shinkansen (333.9 km) Otaru Sapporo Mashu Train Names: TOKI, TANIGAWA Max-TOKI, Max-TANIGAWA New-Chitose Oiwake Shibecha Nemuro Oshamanbe Toya Airport Niigata Yamagata Minami-Chitose Tomakomai Obihiro Kushiro Sendai Noboribetsu Muroran Nagano Hakodate Nagano Shinkansen Fukushima Samani (222.4 km) Ominato Train Name: ASAMA Tohoku Shinkansen "HAYATE" Nagano Shinkansen "ASAMA" Takasaki Tohoku Shinkansen (631.9 km) Aomori Train Names: HAYATE, YAMABIKO, NASUNO, Noheji Max-YAMABIKO, Max-NASUNO Hirosaki Misawa Stations in Tokyo area Omiya Higashi-Noshiro Odate *9 Hachinohe that have JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange offices Metoki San'yo Shinkansen "HIKARI Rail Star" Ninohe Kuji Oga *8 Hakata Kokura Hiroshima Okayama Shin-Osaka Kyoto Nagoya Shin-Yokohama Shinagawa Akita Iwate-Numakunai Tazawako Shizukuishi Iwaizumi Ikebukuro Morioka Kakunodate Ueno Miyako Omagari Shinjuku Tokyo Shin-Hanamaki Tokyo San'yo Shinkansen (623.3 km) Tokaido Shinkansen (552.6 km) Kitakami Sakata Kamaishi Train Names: NOZOMI, HIKARI (incl. HIKARI Rail Star), Train Names: NOZOMI, HIKARI, KODAMA Mizusawa-Esashi Airport KODAMA (Tokyo thru Hakata, 1,175.9km) Tsuruoka Terminal 2 Shinjo Ichinoseki Shibuya Tohoku & Joetsu Shinkansen "Max" Oishida Murayama Kurikomakogen Sakuranbo- Higashine Furukawa Shinagawa Tendo Narita Airport Yamagata Ishinomaki Yokohama Niigata Sendai (Terminal 1) Takojima Yonezawa Niitsu Note: *3 Tsubame-Sanjo Shiroishi-Zao The JAPAN RAIL PASS is not valid for any seats, Nagaoka Fukushima Narita Airport-Tokyo Wakuraonsen Aizu-Wakamatsu Inawashiro About 60 min. by JR’s limited express "Narita Express" reserved or nonreserved, on "NOZOMI" trains Naoetsu Saigata Urasa Koriyama Haranomachi About 90 min. by JR’s rapid train "Airport Narita" on the Tokaido and San'yo Shinkansen lines. Takaoka *1 Tsubata Muikamachi See the notes in Table 1 on p.5. Toyama Echigo-Yuzawa Tokaido & San'yo Shinkansen "HIKARI" Kanazawa Shin-Shirakawa Nagano Jomo-Kogen Iwaki Nasu-Shiobara Nikko Izumo-Shi Matsue Fukui Ueda Stations in Kansai area Kinosaki Karuizawa Tottori Matsumoto that have JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange offices Yonago Takayama Annaka-Haruna Utsunomiya Kurayoshi Toyooka Sakudaira *5 Amanohashidate Gero Shiojiri Okaya Takasaki Miyazu Hamada Chizu Chino Tsuruga Tatsuno Honjo-Waseda Oyama Shin-Osaka Masuda *6 Kumagaya Mito Higashi-Hagi Nishi-Maizuru Kiso-Fukushima Tsukuba Kyoto Tsuwano Fukuchiyama Kobuchizawa Nagato-Shi Maibara Yamaguchi Gifu Mino-Ota Osaka Shin-Shimonoseki Kamigori HONSHU Hiroshima Kofu Omiya Kashimajingu AsaShin-Yamaguchi Shin-Kurashiki Okayama Gifu-Hashima Shimonoseki Tokuyama Mihara Himeji Kyoto Nakatsugawa Hachioji Ueno Narita Kokura Aioi Shin-Kobe Mt. Fuji Narita Airport Kyushu Shinkansen "TSUBAME" Fukuyama Shinagawa Shin-Iwakuni Tokyo Higashi-Hiroshima Nishi-akashi Shin-Osaka Kawarada Nagoya Shin-Yokohama Chiba Choshi Shin-Onomichi Takamatsu San-no-miya Osaka Odawara *4 Yokohama JR Nanba Kyobashi Imabari Nara Tsu Mikawa-Anjo Shinfuji Kamakura Hakata Utazu Tennoji Shizuoka Kansai Airport Atami Kisarazu Sasebo Tosu Matsuyama Kotohira Naruto Toyohashi Saga Matsusaka Mishima Shin-Yatsushiro Hita Iseshi Ito Awa-Ikeda Tokushima Kakegawa Awa-Kamogawa Kansai Airport Kurume Beppu Wakayama Taki Hamamatsu Shuzenji Huis Ten Bosch Toba *2 Tateyama Yufuin Oita SHIKOKU Koyasan Kochi Izukyu-Shimoda Tennoji Kyushu Shinkansen Aso Kumamoto Hineno (126.0 km) Nagasaki Kaifu Uwajima Kubokawa Shirahama Train Name: TSUBAME Misumi Kumanoshi Shin-Yatsushiro *7 Shingu Yatsushiro Nakamura Kiikatsuura Kansai Airport - Shin-Osaka/Osaka/Kyoto Sukumo Kushimoto The stations in red in the map have JAPAN RAIL PASS exchange offices. (as of February, 2005) 45 min. (shortest) to Shin-Osaka, 72 min. (shortest) to Kyoto Shin-Minamata KYUSHU by JR’s limited express "Kansai Airport Express Haruka" Kagoshima-chu¯o¯ Hitoyoshi Izumi The following are non-JR lines (and sections), indicated as *1-*9 in the map, that may be traveled on (though the JAPAN RAIL PASS is not valid for them) by JR-line express About 60 min. to Osaka by Kansai Airport Special Rapid and limited express trains; 1 Hokuetsu Kyuko (Muikamachi-Saigata); 2 Izu Kyuko(Ito-Izukyu Shimoda); 3 Noto Railway (Wakura Onsen-Wajima/Takojima); 4 Ise Sendai * * * * Service Railway (Kawarada-Tsu); * 5 Kitakinki Tango Railway (Nishimaizuru-Toyooka; Fukuchiyama-Miyazu); *6 Chizu Kyuko (Kamigori-Chizu); *7 Tosa Kuroshio Railway (Kubokawa- Miyazaki Sukumo); *8 IGR Iwate Ginga Railway (Morioka-Metoki); *9 Aoimori Railway (Metoki-Hachinohe) Miyazaki Airport Kagoshima-chuł oł Miyakonojo Ibusuki.
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