smartEX-round trip

Number of Persons	1 - 6 Option for children available.
Period of Use	All year round
Available for Purchase	From 10:00 am one month prior to boarding date, up to 4 minutes before the departure time shown for the train in the outbound timetable (return stretches can be reserved up to one month in advance). *1 We have a Pre-sale Reservation Service that allows you to make a request for reservation up to 7 days prior to the date tickets go on sale (1 month before the departure date). Requests will be processed in order after 8:00 am on the date tickets go on sale. The result will be emailed to your registered email address(es) within the same day.
Applicable Trains/Classes of Service	"Nozomi", "Mizuho", "Hikari", "Sakura", "Kodama", and "Tsubame": Reserved seats in Ordinary Cars; Green Cars (First Class Cars); non-reserved seats in Ordinary Cars*2 In the event that you are late for boarding your reserved train, you may board a Shinkansen leaving later on the same date, using a non-reserved seat in an Ordinary Car.
Others	You may not leave the train part-way through the journey. If you disembark the train at an intermediate station, the remaining section of your journey becomes invalid and you cannot use the ticket to board again. You can make changes to boarding date, train, and facilities if it is prior to the scheduled departure of the outbound stretch or the return stretch. Changes to boarding sections can only be made if you are changing collective round trip and neither the outbound nor the return stretch has yet been used. * Changes to one-way section/fare cannot be made. Click here for more information. Cannot be used with other discounts. Transfer discounts are not applicable.

• The period when "smartEX-round trip" tickets are released for sale is as follows.

  (Example ①) Outbound and return tickets to be used on the same day	(Example ②) Outbound and return tickets to be used on different days
  [Outbound] Nov. 1 Nozomi -1 Tokyo(6:00 dep.)⇒ Hiroshima [Return] Nov. 1 Nozomi-60 Hiroshima(19:17 dep.)⇒ Tokyo ⇒Tickets will be released from Oct. 1(10:00) until Nov. 1(5:56)	[Outbound] Nov. 1 Nozomi-1 Tokyo(6:00 dep.)⇒ Hiroshima [Return] Nov. 3 Nozomi-60 Hiroshima(19:17 dep.)⇒ Tokyo ⇒Tickets will be released from Oct. 3 (10:00) until Nov. 1 (5:56) (See note)

  (Note) If you are using outbound and return tickets on different days and you are making a reservation one month before the boarding date of the outbound stretch, then this will be earlier than the tickets for the return stretch are released; therefore, please provisionally book a non-reserved seat for the return journey on the same date as the outbound stretch and then change the booking for the non-reserved seat to a reserved seat after 10:00 on the day that falls one month prior to the date of your return journey (If you have reserved each way separately then you cannot changed to a round-trip discounted fare).

• If you are transferring between Shinkansen during your journey, you may transfer up to 3 trains, but this is restricted to three trains with the same facilities. However, tickets may be released for trains with different facilities for a given section if you are using a reserved seat in an Ordinary Car or a green (first class) seat and one or more of the connecting trains is full or alternatively does not have any reserved seats in Ordinary Cars or any Green Cars.

• This fare is a combination of a Basic Fare Ticket and a Limited Express Ticket and is to be used exclusively on the Tokaido/Sanyo/Kyushu Shinkansen. When using conventional lines to get to the Shinkansen boarding station (or from the Shinkansen disembarking station), a separate fare must be paid for the conventional line.

  When connecting between conventional and Shinkansen lines, the total fare combining the "smartEX service" and conventional line fares may be more expensive than using normal, non-discounted tickets, depending on the sections traveled.

• The price of “Ordinary Car, reserved seat” varies depending on the season (regular season, off-peak season, peak season, and the top season*).
  For one adult, the price is 200 yen lower than that of the regular season during off-peak season, 200 yen more expensive during peak season than regular season.

  In the case that the boarding section straddles the Tokaido, Sanyo, and Kyushu Shinkansen lines, for one adult. the price is 400 yen lower than that of the regular season during off-peak season, 400 yen more expensive during peak season than regular season.

  The top season will be Golden Week (late April to early May), Japanese Obon (mid-August), and year-end and New Year's holidays, which are especially busy for our customers. This classification will be newly introduced from April 1, 2023.
  For one adult, the price is 400 yen more expensive than that of the regular season during the top season. In the case that the boarding section straddles the Tokaido, Sanyo, and Kyushu Shinkansen lines, for one adult. the price is 400 yen more expensive than that of the regular season during the top season.

• Sales prices vary for reserved seats in Ordinary Cars and for Green Cars (First Class Cars) depending on whether you are using (i) the "Nozomi" and "Mizuho" services and (ii) the "Hikari", "Sakura" "Kodama", and "Tsubame" services.
• Non-reserved seats in Ordinary Cars are charged the combined amount of the normal fare and the limited express charges paid when using non-reserved seats.

Prices for all set sections

Please see here concerning the prices for reservations of boarding date by June 24.

①Ordinary Car - reserved seat
②Green Car (First Class Car)
③Ordinary Car - non-reserved seat

< Prices for the main boarding sections for "Nozomi" and "Mizuho" services (regular season; one-way trip per adult) >

Section		Ordinary Car - reserved seat (regular season)	Green Car (First Class Car)
Tokyo・Shinagawa	⇔ Okayama	16,500 Yen (▲200 Yen)	22,570 Yen (▲200 Yen)
	⇔ Hiroshima	18,370 Yen (▲200 Yen)	25,630 Yen (▲200 Yen)
	⇔ Hakata	22,200 Yen (▲200 Yen)	29,460 Yen (▲200 Yen)
Nagoya	⇔ Hakata	17,970 Yen (▲200 Yen)	25,230 Yen (▲200 Yen)
Shin-Osaka	⇔ Hakata	14,840 Yen (▲200 Yen)	20,910 Yen (▲200 Yen)

• The amount in brackets ( ) shows the difference in price from the normal one-way fare (using a round-trip discount ticket) & the charge (for regular seasons) per adult for the "Nozomi" and "Mizuho" service.
• As it is a condition of sale of the smartEX-round trip that outbound and return journeys be purchased together, the price paid will be the one for "round-trip" in the prices above.

Prices when transferring trains

• When transferring between a reserved seat on a "Nozomi" or "Mizuho" train and a "Hikari", "Sakura", "Kodama" or "Tsubame" train
  The price is obtained by taking the price for the "Hikari", "Sakura", "Kodama" and "Tsubame" trains across all boarding sections and adding the charges shown in the table below * for the "Nozomi" and "Mizuho" boarding sections.

  ④ Additional charges when you transfer between reserved seats in "Nozomi" or "Mizuho" trains and "Hikari", "Sakura", "Kodama" and "Tsubame" trains (provided that you do not exit the Shinkansen ticket gate at the transfer station)

  • The amount obtained by deducting the price of the ["Hikari", "Sakura", "Kodama" or "Tsubame" train] from the price of the ["Nozomi" or "Mizuho" train] for the ["Nozomi" or "Mizuho"] boarding sections.

• If you use a Green Car (First Class Car) for part of boarding sections
  The sales price can be calculated by adding the price of an Ordinary Car reserved seat for the bording section and the amount in the table below for a Greeen Car bording section (specified amount), and then subtracting the specified amount of Ordinary Car reserved seat and the specified amount of a Green Car (refunded amount for delays of two hours or more,etc.).

  ⑤ Table of Green Car charges payable when using a Green Car for part of boarding sections (provided that you do not exit the Shinkansen ticket gate at the transfer station) (Table of specified amounts for Green Cars)

  • Please see "Refund reservations" for the specified amount.