JR Takayama-Hokuriku Area Tourist Pass

"Extremely useful pass! It covers the Shinkansen and Nohi Bus, making travel much cheaper and easier than buying tickets trip-by-trip. You can book your entire Shin-Osaka to Hokuriku route at the counter in advance. A major plus is the inclusion of six reserved seat bookings—more than enough for most trips, as I only used four for my entire journey."

The main purpose of this trip was to visit Shirakawa-go. This pass was incredibly cost-effective; the round-trip transportation from Osaka alone (train, including a Shinkansen segment, plus bus) almost equaled the pass price. For the remaining four days, I used it to travel to Kyoto, Nara, Uji, and Kansai Airport.

The exchange order was delivered on time within 4 days to me. Delivery from Taiwan to Malaysia by DHL. Such a fast service. I used the exchange order to exchange for the ticket at JR office at Kansai Airport. Very convenient and super worth it as it helped me to save.

Arriving 1-2 days after purchasing, JNE courier. I exchange the pass at Tokyo station, a day before my flight to Nagoya. I visited Fukui, Kanazawa, Toyama, Shirakawa-go, Takayama, Hida-Furukawa, Gero, and heading back to Nagoya with this pass. I use around a whopping 50k yen in total. Can reserve seat up to 6x, but I only use 2x. For fast paced traveller like me, who easily get bored, this is suuper worth the money! Just hop on the shinkansen (only kagayaki needs seat reservation) or Hida, and off to another place. If you are planning to visit Shirakawa-go via Kanazawa, make sure to reserve the bus early! Booked mine D-26 by phone. It is selling like a hotcakes!

Ease of redemption and ability to change at JR ticket station as well as Reserve ticket on the Hida limited express to toyama. Use on hokuriku Tsuruga and Asama unserved shibkanaen between Tsuruga and Toyama

We flew into Nagoya Airport. We used the Pass to take the Hida Wide View to Takayama, stopping at Shirakawago before taking a bus to Kanazawa. Then we took the Shinkanzen + Thunderbirds to Osaka. On the last day, we chose to visit Kyoto on a 1-day trip using the Haruka non-reserved seat. The only precaution is not to lose the pass throughout the 5 days of use. Overall, during the fall foliage season, we were very impressed with this route.

The JR Takayama-Hokuriku pass was a great deal through Klook. It was easy to use and made traveling very cost-effective. It's even easier if you have the Klook app. I received the voucher by email and picked up the temporary ticket at Suvarnabhumi Airport, 2nd floor, Arrival Hall, Door 2. Then, I exchanged it for a reserved seat train ticket at JR Nagoya. You can reserve express train seats for free 4 times. Just traveling round-trip between Nagoya and Takayama 4 times already makes it worth it, because buying individual tickets would cost about 1500 baht per trip, depending on the yen exchange rate that day. This time, we stayed in Nagoya for 4 nights and took day trips to Kamikochi, Takayama (Gifu), and Gero, eating and traveling until we were tired. I recommend reserving a window seat on the right side when traveling from Nagoya to Takayama – the view is beautiful! The JR Nagoya staff were very friendly and helpful, offering great advice. If you're going to Kamikochi on a one-day trip, get off at Takayama Station. Take the escalator down and turn left to the bus station, which is right at the train station. Buy a round-trip bus ticket for 5800 yen, and you'll get 4 tickets. Ask for the timetable at the bus station. On the way there, wait for bus No. 5, which takes 1 hour to get to Hirayu Onsen. Change buses and wait at No. 1 to go to Kamikochi, which takes 30 minutes. On the way back, take the bus from stop 5 to Hirayu Onsen, and then wait for the bus back to Nagoya at stop 2.

Worth it, but be careful. This area is not like Osaka and Tokyo which have JR in the city. Nagoya, Takayama, Toyama have their own transportation in the city which is not covered by the pass. You have to pay extra. And this pass cannot take the JR to Chubu Airport in Nagoya. Try to calculate if it is worth it. This pass includes the round trip transportation to Shirakawa-go.

first time to use the pass after last trip last oct 2023. we choose this pass for shiraka-go experience but sad to say the Bus of return always fully book and everyhing change and book for a tour to nagoya and stay overnight. hoping next time theres a link where you can book a bus online that covers the pass

very useful Jr pass for those who would like to visit Hokuriku area, I use this pass traveling from Osaka to Kanazawa,booking bus round trip to Shirakawago and take train round trip to takayama then going back to osaka and spend 1day trip in Kyoto. BUT,beware the number of booking reserve seat on Jr train,the pass limited up to6times free of booking the reserved seat. I book train from osaka to kanazawa (via tsuruga: thunderbird then connecting with Shinkansen) these count as 2bookings even I booking only 1time through the machine. So,if there is non reserved seat on Shinkansen,take it no need for reserving the seat, keep the reserved rights 6time for thunderbird which has no any non reserved seat commuter.