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How to buy Tickets

Ticket Purchase Places

JR Ticket Offices

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Ticket vending machines image

  • Tickets can be purchased from the ticket vending machines.
  • Every ticket vending machine in our stations is equipped with English menus and sells tickets with information in English.
  • Some of the machines allow you to buy limited express tickets and reserve seats.

For maps of station layouts, click here

JR TOKAI TOURS

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Ticket Purchase Procedure

Please provide the agent with the following information:

  1. Departure station, destination (station)
  2. Date and time of boarding
  3. Types of trains (Nozomi, Hikari, Kodama, etc)
  4. Number of persons (adult, child [6 to 11 years])
  5. Types of seats (smoking / non-smoking, non-reserved seat / reserved seat / first class car)

Tokai IC Card(TOICA)
An IC card that can be used
in Nagoya and Shizuoka

Tokaido Sanyo Kyushu Shinkansen Online Reservation Service