京都市交通局

September 18, 2019
Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
West Japan Railway Company

Launch of the New Kansai Area Pass, a Product for Overseas Visitors:
Making It Even Easier to Tour Kyoto’s Main Tourist Attractions!
The Kansai Area Pass is very highly rated by overseas visitors, and now Kyoto Municipal
Transportation Bureau, Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. and West Japan Railway Company
have made it even more attractive by including one day of unlimited travel for both Kyoto City
Subway and Keihan Railway. This pass covers a wide area that includes cities such as Osaka,Kyoto, Kobe, Himeji and Nara, and makes it very easy to visit world-famous cities and the main
Kyoto tourist attractions.
The new pass will enable visitors who currently move between Kyoto Station and tourist
spots via city bus to use the subway, Keihan and JR, thereby avoiding congestion in central
Kyoto so that they can enjoy a smooth sightseeing experience.
1.Product: Kansai Area Pass
2. Availability: From October 1, 2019 (Tues.) to September 30, 2020 (Wed.)
3. Validity: 1-day, 2-day, 3-day, 4-day
4. Key points: - Valid for non-reserved seats from Kansai Airport to Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Himeji andNara on the HARUKA limited express as well as rapid and ordinary trains, andfor unlimited travel on West JR buses- Also valid for a Kyoto City Subway One-Day Pass (Kansai Area Pass) and a
Keihan KYOTO SIGHTSEEING PASS (Kansai Area Pass).
* Please see the appendix for the area where this pass is valid.
5. Prices: For one adult pass (Prices shown in parentheses are for a child pass)
Period ofvalidity

Overseas

In Japan

Online1-day

2,300 yen（1,150 yen） 2,400 yen（1,200 yen） 2,350 yen（1,170 yen）

2-day

4,600 yen（2,300 yen） 4,800 yen（2,400 yen） 4,750 yen（2,370 yen）

3-day

5,600 yen（2,800 yen） 5,800 yen（2,900 yen） 5,750 yen（2,870 yen）

4-day

6,600 yen（3,300 yen） 6,800 yen（3,400 yen） 6,750 yen（3,370 yen）

* Sales in Japan: Adult (aged 12 or above), Child (aged between 6 and 11)* Please see the appendix for the locations in Japan where the pass can bepurchased or received when the exchange voucher etc. is redeemed.
6. Eligibility: These passes may only be purchased and used by persons who hold a passport issued
by a foreign government and have a visa status equivalent to ‘short-term stay’.
7. Other: Benefits also include discounts for tourist facilities and buses, and free gifts.
Please check on the JR West website for further details.
（https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/ticket/pass/kansai/）Appendix■ Places to Purchase/Redeem the Kansai Area Pass
1. Purchasing an exchange voucher overseas
Purchase from a travel agent outside of Japan that sell products such as the Japan Rail Pass
for foreign visitors to Japan
2. Places in Japan where exchange vouchers can be redeemed (12 locations)○ The following JR-West stations: Kyōto, Shin-Ōsaka, Ōsaka, Nara, Kansai-airport, Wakayama,Sannomiya○ TiS Kyoto, TiS Osaka, TiS Sannomiya○ Travel Service Center OSAKA, Travel Service Center SHIN-OSAKA
3. Places in Japan where passes can be purchased, or passes purchased online can be picked up (30locations)○ The following JR-West stations: Tsuruga, Kyōto, Nijō, Uji, Shin-Ōsaka, Ōsaka, Kyōbashi,Tsuruhashi, Tennōji, Shin-Imamiya, Bentenchō, Nishikujō, Nara, JR-Namba, Kansai-airport,Kōbe, Shin-Kōbe, Sannomiya, Himeji, Wakayama○ Kansai Tourist Information Center Kansai Airport, Kansai Tourist Information Center Kyoto○ TiS Kyoto, TiS Kyoto West, Nippon Travel Agency Kansai Business Travel Branch, Nippon
Travel Agency West Japan International Travel Branch, TiS Shin-Osaka, TiS Osaka,TiS Tennoji, TiS Sannomiya○ Travel Service Center OSAKA, Travel Service Center SHIN-OSAKA* Passes purchased online can only be picked up at a JR-West Station (excluding Nijō,Tsuruhashi and Bentenchō stations)
Illustration showing the exchangevouchers■ Locations where vouchers can be exchangedfor a one-day passPass

One of each exchange
voucher will be issued
per Kansai Area Pass

Kyoto CityKeihan Railwayvoucher

1 Kyoto City Subway One-Day Pass
○ Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau City Bus andSubway Information Center, Kyo KOKO Welcome Center,
any Kyoto City Subway station
2 Keihan KYOTO SIGHTSEEING PASS
○ Sanjō Station, Tōfukuji Station, Fushimi-Inari Station,Uji Station* At Tōfukuji Station and Uji Station, only the Keihan
section of the station

Subway voucher

Vouchers can be exchanged for aone-day pass at the locations listed onthe left.

■ Area where the Kansai Area Pass is valid<Important notes regarding the use of the Kyoto City Subway
and Keihan Railway>
Kyoto City Subway and Keihan Railway can only be used whenthe vouchers attached to the Kansai Area Pass have been
exchanged at a designated location for one-day passes for
Kyoto City Subway and Keihan Railway.
However, those passes are valid only during the period when
the Kansai Area Pass are valid, and are only valid for the dayon which their voucher was redeemed.

SonobeKokusaikaikan

Demachiyanagi
Tsuruga
Sanjō (Sanjō Keihan)

Karasuma Oike
Uzumasa
TenjingawaŌmi-Shiotsu

Kyoto

Nijo

TakedaTōfukujiYamashina

Sasayamaguchi

Hon-Tatsuno

Uji

Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Hyōgo

Aioi
Kamigōri

Amagasaki ŌsakaWadamisaki
Sakurajima

Kyōbashi
JR-Namba

ImamiyaTennōji Kyūhōji

Higashi-Hagoromoｖ Ōtori
Kansai-airport

Conventi onal line
Wes t JR Bus

Kyoto Ci ty Subwa y
Kei han Railway

Shin-ŌsakaUji
Cable Hachimangū Sanjo

Shigino Hanatenｖ
Nishikujō

HimejiBanshū-Akō

KusatsuRokujizō

Chūshojima

HinenoWakayama

TakadaKizu
ŌjiNaraSakurai

Tsuge