JR West Pass: Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima Without Overspending

Most travellers planning a Kansai-and-Hiroshima trip click straight to the national Japan Rail Pass. They see "unlimited rides for seven days" on the JR Group homepage and assume that's the answer. Then they pay ¥50,000 a head for a route that a ¥23,000 regional pass would have covered, with the same Shinkansen, the same reserved … Read more