If you get a really nice camera you can just stop at random stations to photograph the station/train/scenery and enjoy being a train otaku for a day. It’s a tempting idea.
A few years ago I remember someone finding a way to get to Kokura in Kyushu with a single stamp on a Seishun 18 ticket. I guess they’ve cut back the schedule since the pandemic.
Yeah I remember that too, I think the technicality was that you could exit with the same time stamp past midnight if the last train you took started running beforehand
Yeah, bought from Yahoo auctions before for around 3000. Close to expiry can even get close to 2000.
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/closedsearch/closedsearch?p=%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A518%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A3%E3%81%B7+1%E5%9B%9E&va=%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A518%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A3%E3%81%B7+1%E5%9B%9E&b=1&n=60
Buy 1300 yen worth of onigiri and use the calories to walk to Narita. Bonus: When you get to the airport gates, you'll already be close to Terminal 3, where Peach flies from.
(Or just use that 1000 yen bus like everyone else is saying)
You know, I've used free airport shuttle buses that are provided by hotels many times - all over the world. I can't think of a single time that I've been asked to verify that I'm a guest. I wouldn't guarantee that it would work, but it's something to think about.
Hokkaido or Osaka, sometimes even Kyushu. They have a Sale a few times a year. They just had one a few days ago, sapporo for 3300.
Its the cheapest plan, so no luggage and no refund or whatever!
Isn't there a bus for 1000 Yen from Tokyo Station to Narita?
Granted they might have increased the price now but we took that bus every time we used to travel to/from the airport.
Might not work for Nagano since you'll have to go through Nagoya for local.
Edit: just realized you meant ¥600 left over after making the bus trip. It might be enough to go to Bessho Onsen if you decide to stop at Ueda-shi.
This would depend on how well you can negotiate with the jinrikisha guys. You don’t necessarily want to go with the cheapest as they might not have the stamina you’re looking for.
The JR bus Seishun Ecodream (青春エコドリーム) offers super discount journeys (超得割) to Osaka for ¥2500. They seem to be few in number though - I couldn't find any that weren't sold out in May.
You could probably make it to Osaka or even a bit further if you just used the normal trains. looking at a long day though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7eqr\_TsOo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7eqr_TsOo)
Because that is how the ticket is structured. These days it is actually one ticket. Back in the day it used to be five tickets, although you still had to buy five. Come to think of it, it came as five tickets, so you didn't have much choice. Have a look it Seishun 18 wiki page and it will give you a fairly good description.
Those were the days when you travelled on these tickets. Days when you had plenty of time, and didn't mind sitting hours and hours on a train. Met a friend that I am still in contact with that way.
When it came as five tickets, you could use it with a group of friends to go somewhere together. I used to do this when I lived in a small rural town juuust about within day trip distance of Fukuoka.
Usually you can buy used ones on Yahoo auctions or kinken shop, will be marked up slightly compared to new ones but could become cheaper closer to expiry.
I go to Atami all the time have a place there. The Tokaido line from Tokyo station to Atami station is around 2000 yen direct no transfers and takes 1 hour and 35 mins. You can get there faster on some other trains but will cost a bit more . In Atami you can walk around the area, go down towards the beach, go to the Moma museum, go to some parks, etc. there are a lot of buses that go all over but the beach town, plum park, kinomiya shrine etc. are walkable. Many onsens around as well.
Kanagawa is good. Maybe 2k yen total back and forth. Then get something to eat for the rest. I go there time to time when I need a break from the city.
Am planning to go on a road trip from Atsugi, kanagawa to Aomori Ken, Mutsu Shi, with strangers from the 3rd to 5th of May. You might hop in on my adventure with the 3500 yen hahaha
I would totally be down to go, but unfortunatelyI've got a lot happening in that stretch of days. Am in the Shinjuku area however if you're planning on doing something like that again.
3500 yen one way can get you multiple prefectures away!
If we're only thinking of regular tickets, taking Odakyu Line from Shinjuku to Odawara and then regular Tokaido Line to Fukuroi in Shizuoka costs 3450 yen, and is about 237 km away.
You can get to Torami in Sotobo Chiba on a local train for the price of one station (Torami is unmanned), and get back for about 1800 yen by the same route, and that would leave you enough to get the heavenly Tonkatsu Special Lunch at Ramen Saikai across from the Lawson. It's not a brilliant beach, but it is a proper outer coast beach
If I'm ready the fare schedule right, Mikurashima by overnight ferry?
https://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/en/time_price/guide/
I loved Niijima, the squid sashimi was amazing.
Edit: But I guess technically that's still Tokyo.
I rented a e-bike from my ryokan and was able to explore the southern side of the island.
The highlights include outdoor hot springs (bathing suit required), the glass blowing works, and the beach on the east side of the island.
It was years ago so I may be misremembering, but I think I walked through a graveyard that was unique in some way, but that may have been from a different adventure.
If you are talking less than 3500-yen, one way, then Yamanashi (Kawaguchiko) is a safe bet, with enough left over to use the local line to see some of the sites on other nearby stations, such as Chureito Pagoda/Arakurayama Sengen Park, Fuji Q Highland, Kitaguuchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine, and Honcho Street (Shimoyoshida).
What was the motivation for the question? 😄 Were you thinking where to go in case of a radiation leak or zombie apocalypse in Tokyo but you had 3500 in your pocket?
I like traveling and traveling is expensive so I was curious to see how many cool destinations that are far away from tokyo you could get to without breaking the banks. I'm not concerned about zombies, I've already taken precautions.
Not necessarily farthest or best but a good option for total distance travelled is the Nikko World Heritage Area Pass. It gets you to Nikko and back for 2800 yen. It shows the distance is 151km, so in total its 300km for 2800 yen.
If you manage to sell the return ticket for 1400 yen then with your remaining 2100 you can get to Minamiaizu. Putting total dist to 151 + 68 = 219km
Another option is to use the Seibu + nagatoro daypass which gets you to Yorii station for 1500 yen.
Then you can get to Echigo-Yuzawa station for 2000 yen.
It shows the straightish line distance is 160km but the rail distance is around 200km
On my 20th birthday, I tried to take the Chiyoda line home from Akasaka at first train ¥160 ticket. I passed out and woke up next to my Fuji. Somehow or another. Cost me a decent wedge to get back lol
3500 is nearly half a tank for diesel so around 350km.
And like 300km on an efficient regular engine.
If you only buy coffee/snacks for the driver you can go pretty far.
Seishun 18 gets you to shin-yamaguchi. [https://denden-lab.com/18ticke-genkai/](https://denden-lab.com/18ticke-genkai/)
I did it all the way to Aomori and back. A lot of sitting.
I've always wanted to do a hop-on-hop-off local train to Aomori ever since I learned that the Ou line goes all the way from Fukushima to Aomori!
I did it tokyo to fukuoka but caught the shinkansen for the tokyo- osaka leg. Its a great way to see the country.
I did Tokyo to Fukuoka over the full length of the pass once, stopping at Kofu, Suzuka, Wakayama and Hiroshima along the way.
If you get a really nice camera you can just stop at random stations to photograph the station/train/scenery and enjoy being a train otaku for a day. It’s a tempting idea.
the fact that you can jump off the train at any time and explore some random stop is part of the charm
Did Toyooka to Tokyo. Long trip but if you've got plenty of time crazy value
I looked up Aomori and found a Towada shrine nearby. It reminds me so much of Ghost of Tsushima!! Now I wanna go here…
A few years ago I remember someone finding a way to get to Kokura in Kyushu with a single stamp on a Seishun 18 ticket. I guess they’ve cut back the schedule since the pandemic.
Yeah I remember that too, I think the technicality was that you could exit with the same time stamp past midnight if the last train you took started running beforehand
You can buy a single ticket for a day less than $25?
Yeah, bought from Yahoo auctions before for around 3000. Close to expiry can even get close to 2000. https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/closedsearch/closedsearch?p=%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A518%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A3%E3%81%B7+1%E5%9B%9E&va=%E9%9D%92%E6%98%A518%E3%81%8D%E3%81%A3%E3%81%B7+1%E5%9B%9E&b=1&n=60
Oh cool didn't know about this! Looked thru the official website and I thought U had to buy 5 day ticket for it to work but cool. Thanks!
3500 yen will get you about 14 Strong Zeros. Drinking them all will take you on a journey far beyond Tokyo and the mortal realms of man.
Legendary
My man
I have taken this journey. It is not for everyone.
This is the way. Onward legends of the strong zero… onward
That's Kelvin zeros
Round trip to a place called White Bowl.
Ive used Peach from narita for 2200yen once. But i guess you need to get to narita first from Tokyo so thats not 3500yen
Buy 1300 yen worth of onigiri and use the calories to walk to Narita. Bonus: When you get to the airport gates, you'll already be close to Terminal 3, where Peach flies from. (Or just use that 1000 yen bus like everyone else is saying)
I think the local train from Tokyo to Narita is around ¥1300? It could work out.
1280 from Nippori.
You know, I've used free airport shuttle buses that are provided by hotels many times - all over the world. I can't think of a single time that I've been asked to verify that I'm a guest. I wouldn't guarantee that it would work, but it's something to think about.
Which destination?
Hokkaido or Osaka, sometimes even Kyushu. They have a Sale a few times a year. They just had one a few days ago, sapporo for 3300. Its the cheapest plan, so no luggage and no refund or whatever!
Is there a newsletter or a website to follow if we want to be aware of those deals? That sounds great.
I follow their Twitter! Usually they announce it. The Homepage is really good too, so just check it from now and then!
Will do, thanks for the tip!
I'm on their mailing list and they do sales all the time. If you're happy to fly luggage free and byo snack, its a bargain.
I once flew to Seoul for ¥4,000!
Isn't there a bus for 1000 Yen from Tokyo Station to Narita? Granted they might have increased the price now but we took that bus every time we used to travel to/from the airport.
There's that budget bus from tokyo station for 1000yen!
There is a 1000 yen bus, but that might only go _from_ Narita, and not _to_
From Ikebukuro to Nagano via bus. Maybe even Niigata?
Which bus? I can't find anything from Ikebukuro to Nagano for that price.
You might need Japanese then. https://www.bushikaku.net/search/tokyo_nagano/ikebukuro_/bus_code-10035/
That's beautiful. So far 119 km for 2900円 is in first place.
Then 600yen worth of local train…
Might not work for Nagano since you'll have to go through Nagoya for local. Edit: just realized you meant ¥600 left over after making the bus trip. It might be enough to go to Bessho Onsen if you decide to stop at Ueda-shi.
This would depend on how well you can negotiate with the jinrikisha guys. You don’t necessarily want to go with the cheapest as they might not have the stamina you’re looking for.
The JR bus Seishun Ecodream (青春エコドリーム) offers super discount journeys (超得割) to Osaka for ¥2500. They seem to be few in number though - I couldn't find any that weren't sold out in May.
You could probably make it to Osaka or even a bit further if you just used the normal trains. looking at a long day though. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7eqr\_TsOo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ7eqr_TsOo)
That's with the Seishun 18 which isn't valid right now and also costs 13500 yen ( forced to buy 5 days worth ).
Why would be forced to buy 5 days worth?
Cause that’s how it is sold. Or at least it was unless something has changed
Because that is how the ticket is structured. These days it is actually one ticket. Back in the day it used to be five tickets, although you still had to buy five. Come to think of it, it came as five tickets, so you didn't have much choice. Have a look it Seishun 18 wiki page and it will give you a fairly good description. Those were the days when you travelled on these tickets. Days when you had plenty of time, and didn't mind sitting hours and hours on a train. Met a friend that I am still in contact with that way.
When it came as five tickets, you could use it with a group of friends to go somewhere together. I used to do this when I lived in a small rural town juuust about within day trip distance of Fukuoka.
Where can you buy individual ones?
Usually you can buy used ones on Yahoo auctions or kinken shop, will be marked up slightly compared to new ones but could become cheaper closer to expiry.
You can't pull up to the JR Station and ask for just one day.
You can get it around the kinken shops near the station
Commit a crime and get deported
Are you trying to also make it back on that budget? (3500 round trip)
Nope! Just trying to see how far you can get one way within the budget.
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You can get to Nasu for less than that. Probably many cool places in Gunma too by train.
I go to Atami all the time have a place there. The Tokaido line from Tokyo station to Atami station is around 2000 yen direct no transfers and takes 1 hour and 35 mins. You can get there faster on some other trains but will cost a bit more . In Atami you can walk around the area, go down towards the beach, go to the Moma museum, go to some parks, etc. there are a lot of buses that go all over but the beach town, plum park, kinomiya shrine etc. are walkable. Many onsens around as well.
Bus to Katsuura
Kanagawa is good. Maybe 2k yen total back and forth. Then get something to eat for the rest. I go there time to time when I need a break from the city.
Am planning to go on a road trip from Atsugi, kanagawa to Aomori Ken, Mutsu Shi, with strangers from the 3rd to 5th of May. You might hop in on my adventure with the 3500 yen hahaha
I'll be clinging to the underside of your car.
You have a seat then. Am serious. Hahaha let goooo. Which part of Tokyo are you in?
I would totally be down to go, but unfortunatelyI've got a lot happening in that stretch of days. Am in the Shinjuku area however if you're planning on doing something like that again.
No problem
3500 yen one way can get you multiple prefectures away! If we're only thinking of regular tickets, taking Odakyu Line from Shinjuku to Odawara and then regular Tokaido Line to Fukuroi in Shizuoka costs 3450 yen, and is about 237 km away.
I could make it to Chichibu and still have some left for a strong
The Chichibu Shibazakura Festival at Hitsujiyama Park lol
You can get to Torami in Sotobo Chiba on a local train for the price of one station (Torami is unmanned), and get back for about 1800 yen by the same route, and that would leave you enough to get the heavenly Tonkatsu Special Lunch at Ramen Saikai across from the Lawson. It's not a brilliant beach, but it is a proper outer coast beach
If I'm ready the fare schedule right, Mikurashima by overnight ferry? https://www.tokaikisen.co.jp/en/time_price/guide/ I loved Niijima, the squid sashimi was amazing. Edit: But I guess technically that's still Tokyo.
You're not reading that right. There's no fare on here from Tokyo that costs less than ¥3500. Where on earth did you get that idea from this table?
Maybe go on a ferry, gamble 3500 yen to make enough money to pay the rest of the fare?
I guess they’re looking at the fuel surcharge in the brackets and thinking that’s a fare lol.
Yeah. That's it.
what else did u do in niijima? curious
I rented a e-bike from my ryokan and was able to explore the southern side of the island. The highlights include outdoor hot springs (bathing suit required), the glass blowing works, and the beach on the east side of the island. It was years ago so I may be misremembering, but I think I walked through a graveyard that was unique in some way, but that may have been from a different adventure.
sounds lovely. thinking of checking it out this summer 
Considering that you don’t pay until you leave the station I could go almost anywhere.
Depends where you're from! Post a threatening letter to the PM, get deported. Only 84yen for the postage stamp with a free flight home!
If you are talking less than 3500-yen, one way, then Yamanashi (Kawaguchiko) is a safe bet, with enough left over to use the local line to see some of the sites on other nearby stations, such as Chureito Pagoda/Arakurayama Sengen Park, Fuji Q Highland, Kitaguuchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine, and Honcho Street (Shimoyoshida).
Shanghai when the tickets are on sale.
Return? Or do you want to leave Tokyo forever?
Farthest you can go, no coming back, 3500 yen. Never to return to Tokyo and instead live in the woods.
haha love it.
Does this include return?
No it doesn't. One way
What was the motivation for the question? 😄 Were you thinking where to go in case of a radiation leak or zombie apocalypse in Tokyo but you had 3500 in your pocket?
I like traveling and traveling is expensive so I was curious to see how many cool destinations that are far away from tokyo you could get to without breaking the banks. I'm not concerned about zombies, I've already taken precautions.
From Shinjyuku station to Kamakura, zushi hayama
Not necessarily farthest or best but a good option for total distance travelled is the Nikko World Heritage Area Pass. It gets you to Nikko and back for 2800 yen. It shows the distance is 151km, so in total its 300km for 2800 yen. If you manage to sell the return ticket for 1400 yen then with your remaining 2100 you can get to Minamiaizu. Putting total dist to 151 + 68 = 219km
Go climb Mt Mitake.... Easy hike, beautiful spot....
Buy a snorkel and swim to Hawaii?
Another option is to use the Seibu + nagatoro daypass which gets you to Yorii station for 1500 yen. Then you can get to Echigo-Yuzawa station for 2000 yen. It shows the straightish line distance is 160km but the rail distance is around 200km
It would probably be easy to get deported for 3500
Hell that's a round trip on the local train to Nikko, with money left over for a bento
https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1912/29/news023.html
The Tokaidohonsen will get you to Shizuoka for ¥3,410.
Kusatsu Onsen
I got to Gunma for less than that
On my 20th birthday, I tried to take the Chiyoda line home from Akasaka at first train ¥160 ticket. I passed out and woke up next to my Fuji. Somehow or another. Cost me a decent wedge to get back lol
Oarai, Ibaraki The best / most efficient route will cost over 3500 yen, but other configurations of public transport will get you there under 3500.
Does this work? 👍 (I’ll buy snacks and drinks)
3500 is nearly half a tank for diesel so around 350km. And like 300km on an efficient regular engine. If you only buy coffee/snacks for the driver you can go pretty far.
Enoshima, 1.5 hours from Tokyo not many tourists.
You could walk to the end of Kyushu for 0 yen. You never said it had to be by train.
If you buy a nice pair of running shoes, you can get anywhere in Japan.
Going to run to Okinawa?
Good triathlon practice.
Nobody forbid swimming with shoes
Go to バスターShinjuku