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A speedy way to get tickets for Japan\u2019s bullet trains<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not just the high speeds that Japan\u2019s bullet trains travel at that makes Shinkansen<\/strong> travel such a joy. Unlike with flying to your destination, there\u2019s no lengthy check-in or security procedure to go through, so as long as you\u2019ve got your ticket, you can be onboard just minutes after arriving at your departure station.<\/p>\n Even the process of getting your Shinkansen tickets is about to become easier and more convenient, as Japan Railway Company\u2019s JR Central, JR West, and JR Kyushu have all announced that starting this autumn, you\u2019ll be able to purchase Shinkansen tickets via text messages sent from your phone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The system works with Line<\/strong>, the most popular messaging app among Japanese smartphone users. There will be no need to register your email address with JR or create a customer account<\/strong> (both of which are requirements for ordinary online Shinkansen reservations). Instead, you merely have to register the official JR Line account as a friend within the app, and then you\u2019ll be able to reserve tickets on the Tokaido, Sanyo, and Kyushu Shinkansen lines<\/strong>. These three lines connectively stretch from Tokyo Station all the way west across the country to Kagoshima Chuo Station in Kagoshima Prefecture, passing through top travel destinations such as Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka along the way<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Payment for Line-reserved tickets is rendered through PayPay<\/strong>, one of Japan\u2019s largest cashless payment apps, and upon payment you receive a QR or bar code which acts as a digital ticket that you can scan at the station gate. There\u2019s also a 100-yen (approximately US$0.70) discount for tickets reserved through Line, which isn\u2019t going to be a make-or-break factor in anyone\u2019s travel plans, but it\u2019s at least a little something that you can put towards buying some of that famous super-hard Shinkansen ice cream<\/a>, or maybe a cold drink if you\u2019re sitting in one of the Shinkansen\u2019s weak-air conditioning cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Line ticket purchase system launches on October 4, and allows for reservations to be made up to one month ahead of your travel date.<\/p>\n Source: JR Central<\/a> via Nitele News<\/a> via Livedoor News<\/a> via Hachima Kiko<\/a><\/em> A speedy way to get tickets for Japan\u2019s bullet trains. It\u2019s not just the high speeds that Japan\u2019s bullet trains travel at that makes Shinkansen travel such a joy. Unlike…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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