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Originally Posted by masaegu
You will definitely lose money if you buy the Pass, period. You need to travel much more than what you described above to benefit from obtaining one.
Early January is high season (the highest TBH) for trains with people going back home from their New Year's vacations. It will be difficult to reserve your seat only a day or two in advance. I hate to scare you but it will be pretty difficult even to get an unreserved seat.
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oh godd ... ugh.
okay, so getting the rail pass would not be a good idea then. Is the only reason because I most likely won't be able to use it for the shinkansen, or are there other reasons? And will I just end up having to get a more expensive seat? Or do you think it could go completely sold out before I even get into the country? Would there be other ways to get to Nagoya like buses? Would that be practical? Or would that sell out just as fast?
Just for future reference if I wasn't going at such a busy time would it have been a good idea?
Thank you so much by the way. I think I waited to long to plan all this out. I still haven't even bought my plane ticket yet, just because I wanted to figure out all the travel inside the country first. So If traveling from Tokyo to Nagoya is gonna be kind of impossible I could just fly straight to Nagoya, I just wanted to see Tokyo while I was there.