dreaburn
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i'll be arriving in Tokyo next thursday night and plan to take the Shinkansen from Tokyo station to Nagano friday morning. Can people please give me advice about buying a ticket? The Hyperdia site says there's trains leaving early in the morning for 8000 yen. Will i be ok to just turn up the night before and buy a ticket at the station?
thanks in advance.
dave
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i've been looking at the trail map for Hakuba Goryu / Hakuba47. From the map online it doesn't look that big. Is it big enough to keep you interested for 7 days of boarding? i mostly freeride and spend some time in the park.
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thanks for the replies. Definitely helped.
i think i'll stay a night in Tokyo and take an early train to Nagano. Hyperdia has one listed at 6:24 and getting in at 8am so should be fine.
Definitely don't want to be stressed my first time in Japan!
what's the best way to buy a Shinkansen ticket? Should i pre-buy it from Australia or wait til i get there?
thanks again for your help
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Kraut_in_HongKong,
The bus from Shinjuku leaves at 10:30. Assuming i land on time at 8:10 and got through customs by 9, is it feasible to get to Shinjuku and find the bus in 1.5 hours?
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Hi everyone.... my first post here.
i'm heading to Japan early March and it will be my first time there.
i'm finding it a bit difficult to arrange travel from Tokyo to Hakuba. My flight gets in at 8pm so i can't take the Shinkansen as the last one leaves Tokyo at 10pm and i wouldn't have time to get to the JR station.
Can anyone suggest any other ways of getting there? I want to avoid staying overnight in Tokyo and then going early the next morning.
I was thinking about an overnight bus but haven't found decent websites with timetables.
any help appreciated.
dave
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Thanks. i'll be going as prepared as possible. i even found a layout of the Tokyo train station so i know which platform the Nagano Shinkansen leaves from.
my travel agent here had a 7 day JR pass but it was way expensive - Y31,500. Compared to the each way cost of 8000. i'll be at Nagano for 7 days so does that mean i would need a 7 day JR pass? Or does it work like a Eurail pass where you can buy a 2 day pass and use it on any 2 non-consecutive days?
dave