Our top 4 train itineraries with the JR Pass 21 days in Japan

  • Published on : 03/03/2025
  • by : Lucie G.

Use the JR Pass (or Japan Rail Pass) for your entire itinerary during your trip to Japan and enjoy the convenience of JR lines!

Day 1: Tokyo → Sendai = ¥11,000 (1 h 30)

Day 2: Sendai → Hakodate = ¥18,000 (3 h 50)

Day 3: Hakodate

Day 4: Hakodate → Sapporo = ¥9,440 (3 h 45)

Day 5: Sapporo

Day 6: Sapporo → Hachinohe = ¥18,900 (5 h)

Day 7: Hachinohe → Morioka = ¥4,000 (30 min)

Day 8: Morioka → Odawara (Hakone) = ¥17,980 (3 h 10)

Day 9: Hakone

Day 10: Hakone → Kyoto = ¥12,000 (2 h)

Day 11: Kyoto

Day 12: Kyoto*

Itinerary Crossing Japan

© Mapchart, Japan Experience

Day 13: Kyoto → Hiroshima = ¥12,000 (2 h)

Day 14: Hiroshima

Day 15: Hiroshima → Fukuoka = ¥8,500 (1 h)

Day 16: Fukuoka

Day 17: Fukuoka → Okayama = ¥12,000 (2 h)

Day 18: Okayama

Day 19: Okayama → Osaka = ¥5,600 (1 h)

Day 20: Osaka

Day 21: Osaka → Tokyo = ¥13,800 (3 h)

= ¥143,400 (JR Pass: ¥100,000) 43.4% savings 💴

*Day-trip possible to Nara or Kobe

Night view of Hakodate from Mount Hakodate

© Zhuoqian Yang, Unsplash

Shinsekai district, Osaka

© Robby McCullough, Unsplash

View from Lake Ashi of Mount Fuji and the Hakone-jinja torii

© Sravan V, Unsplash

Day 1: Tokyo ↔ Miitake = ¥2,000 (1 h 30)

Day 2: Tokyo → Hakodate = ¥24,160 (4 h 45)

Day 3: Hakodate → Usu = ¥5,920 (3 h)

Day 4: Usu → Sapporo = ¥5,500 (2 h 15)

Day 5: Sapporo → Asahikawa = ¥5,000 (1 h 30)

Day 6: Asahikawa → Sounkyo = ¥4,500 (2 h 10)

Day 7: Sounkyo

Day 8: Sounkyo → Sapporo = ¥6,300 (3 h 20)

Day 9: Sapporo

Day 10: Sapporo → Noboribetsu = ¥4,780 (1 h 15)

Day 11: Noboribetsu

Day 12: Noboribetsu→ Aomori = ¥14,480 (3 h 50)

Itinerary Among the mountains

© Mapchart, Japan Experience

Day 13: Aomori

Day 14: Aomori → Sendai = ¥11,800 (2 h 10)

Day 15: Sendai → Nagano = ¥17,400 (2 h 30)

Day 16: Nagano → Toyama = ¥7,600 (45 min)

Day 17: Toyama ↔ Kurobe Gorge

Day 18: Nagano → Komoro = ¥3,000 (50 min)

Day 19: Nagano → Kyoto = ¥14,500 (3 h 30)

Day 20: Kyoto

Day 21: Kyoto → Tokyo = ¥13,000 (2 h)

= ¥139,940 (JR Pass: ¥100,000) 39.9% savings 💴

Mount Asama, Japanese Alps

© Mitsuo Komoriya, Unsplash

Mount Asahidake, Daisetsuzan, Hokkaido

© Hokunan, wikimedias

Kurobe Gorge, Unsplash

© Keisuke Kuribara, Unsplash

Day 1: Tokyo → Katsuura = ¥3,500 (1 h 30)

Day 2: Katsuura → Kamakura = ¥4,600 (2 h 50)

Day 3: Kamakura

Day 4: Kamakura → Izukyu-Shimoda = ¥4,800 (2 h 30)

Day 5: Izukyu-shimoda → Shizuoka = ¥5,100 (2 h 20)

Day 6: Shizuoka → Kyoto = ¥9,900 (1 h 30)

Day 7: Kyoto ↔ Omimaiko

Day 8: Kyoto → Okayama = ¥7,100 (1 h 20)

Day 9: Okayama → Takamatsu = ¥1,600 (55 min)

Day 10: Takamatsu

Day 11: Takamatsu → Hiroshima = ¥6,900 (1 h 40)

Day 12: Hiroshima

Itinerary From beach to beach

© Mapchart, Japan Experience

Day 13: Hiroshima → Fukuoka = ¥8,500 (1 hr 40)

Day 14: Fukuoka → Miyazaki = ¥11,800 (4 h 20)

Day 15: Miyazaki

Day 16: Miyazaki → Fukuoka = ¥11,800 (4 h 20)

Day 17: Fukuoka → Matsue = ¥11,800 (5 h)

Day 18: Matsue

Day 19: Matsue → Tottori = ¥3,500 (40 min)

Day 20: Tottori

Day 21: Tottori → Kyoto = ¥11,000 (4 h)

= ¥103,900 (JR Pass ¥100,000) 3.9% savings 💴

Lake Biwa, Shiga

© Takeshi Yu, Unsplash

Miho no matsubara beach, Shizuoka

© H Murakami, Unsplash

Miyajima, Hiroshima Bay

© Alessandro Stech, Unsplash

Cycling around Lake Biwa!

Day 1: Tokyo ↔ Nikko = ¥10,000 (2 h)

Day 2: Tokyo ↔ Utsunomiya = ¥5,000 (3 h)

Day 3: Tokyo → Kamakura = ¥1,000 (50 min)

Day 4: Kamakura → Shizuoka = ¥6,000 (1 h 45 min)

Day 5: Shizuoka → Ise = ¥7,000 (3 h)

Day 6: Ise

Day 7: Ise → Kii-Katsura = ¥5,200 (3 h)

Day 8: Kii Katsura → Kyoto = ¥8,450 (4 h)

Day 9: Kyoto ↔ Nara = ¥1,500 (40 min)

Day 10: Kyoto ↔ Uji = ¥1,200 (20 min)

Day 11: Kyoto → Hiroshima = ¥10,000 (2 h)

Day 12: Hiroshima ↔ Miyajima = ¥1,500 (1 h)

Itinerary Spirituality

© Mapchart, Japan Experience

Day 13: Hiroshima → Fukuoka = ¥8,500 (1 h)

Day 14: Fukuoka

Day 15: Fukuoka → Matsue = ¥11,800 (5 h)

Day 16: Matsue

Day 17: Matsue → Okayama = ¥6,100 (2 h 50)

Day 18: Okayama → Takamatsu = ¥1,600 (50 min)

Day 19: Takamatsu → Kyoto = ¥8,800 (2 h 30)

Day 20: Kyoto → Tokyo = ¥13,000 (2 h)

Day 21: Tokyo

= ¥106,850 (JR Pass: ¥100,000) 6.8% savings 💴

Kumano Nachi Taisha, Kii-Katsuura

© Pen_ash, Unsplash

Buddha statue at Nanzo-in temple, Fukuoka

© Alexander Schimmeck, Unsplash

Tosho-gu, Yomeimon, Nikko

© Chuck Eugene, Unsplash

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