As explained in the article below, Shinkansen is very crowded during year-end and new year peak period.
Year-end and new year PEAK is approaching. Book NOW and securely reserve your seats.
https://shinkansen-ticket.com/blogs/news/year-end-and-new-year-peak-is-approaching-book-now-and-securely-reserve-your-seats
Some Shinkansen tickets are already SOLD OUT.
Here are the tickets already sold out as of December 21th.
- From Tokyo (Shinagawa) to Nagoya / Kyoto / Shin-Osaka
- Date: December 29th, 30th
- Train type: ALL
- Seat: Reserved / most of the Green reserved
- Tokyo departure time: 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- From Shin-Osaka / Kyoto / Nagoya to Tokyo (Shinagawa)
- Date: January 2nd
- Train type: ALL
- Seat: Reserved / Green reserved
- Shin-Osaka departure time 9:15 am and later
- Date: January 3rd
- Train type: Nozomi and Hikari
- Seat: Reserved / Green reserved
- Shin-Osaka departure time 7:00 am and later
- From Tokyo to Hakata
- Train type: Nozomi and Hikari
- Seat: Reserved / Green Reserved
- Date: December 30th
- Tokyo departure time: 6:00 am to 2:00 pm
- From Tokyo to Hakodate-ShinHokuto
- Train type: Hayabusa
- Seat: Green reserved
- Date: December 30th
- Tokyo depature time
- 10:20 and 12:20: all sold out
- 13:20: still some seats left but most of them will be single seats
JR (the train company) website has been intermittently very slow due to heavy traffic. The other tickets can be sold out very soon.
Please order as soon as you decide your schedule. We will do our best to reserve the left tickets though we can not guarantee your ticket reservation. We will refund 100% in case we can not reserve your tickets.
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