Is it cheaper to purchase a one way N’Ex ticket to go to Shinjuku from Narita airport instead of purchasing the 14 day JR rail pass? Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seicho Matsumoto's masterpiece - and as one of the most fiendish puzzles ever written. I am unsure on how to get around in Tokyo, but assume the subway/skyline are the best way to get around. It’s worth mentioning that the translator, Polly Barton, is one of my favourite Japanese-English translators working now. I just wanted to know whether I should make a reservation in advance for the N’EX, or if I could reserve my seats at Narita Airport itself.

This outstanding debut from Australian newcomer Burr is set in the outback town of Nannine in the parched landscape of rural New South Wales. Kennedy's PT-109 was lost on a "poorly planned and uncoordinated" attack on a Tokyo Express run on the night of 1-2 August 1943. Therefore, if you have purchased a 7-day pass and your activation date (when you first use the pass) is the 10th of February, the exact expiration time will be midnight on February 16.Everything seems to point to a ‘love’ suicide, as the persons involved had been seen boarding a train together at Tokyo station and now some days later the bodies have been found side-by-side. When ministry official Kenichi Sayama and waitress Toki Kuwayama are found dead in a cove on the island of Kyushu, next to a bottle that appears to have held cyanide-laced juice, it is chalked up as a lovers’ suicide pact. There are some unlikely coincidences (our detective is questioning someone who after claiming they can’t remember X or Y, all of a sudden come up with some vital bit of info). However, you might want to make day trips from Kyoto, visit places nearby Osaka or see places in the Tokyo outskirts. To reserve your seat, please go to any Ticket Office (Midori-no-madoguchi), located in all Japanese train stations.

How long is the travel time , because we only plan to go there for a one day trip and plan to go back to Tokyo on the same day. There are two types of N’EX tickets: for Standard and Green Cars (First Class, similar to the Japan Rail Standard and Green class tickets). Naturally, only having read a couple of Seishi Yokomizo’s books, that was the only point of comparison I had for Japanese mystery fiction. We are arriving at Narita Airport from Australia in March 2020 and staying right near Shinagawa Station. Therefore, if you have purchased a 7-day pass and your activation date (when you first use the pass) is the 18th of November, the exact expiration time will be midnight on November 14th to travel from Osaka to Tokyo.As specified in this article, Japan Rail Pass holders can reserve a seat at any JR ticket office in Narita Airport, before boarding the train and without any additional payment. Regarding the itinerary from Narita, should you be at the airport we would recomend you to take the Narita Express to central Tokyo and start your journey from there. I’m sorry but I’m really confused about what sort of trains the rail pass actually entitles us to take around Tokyo. I derive far more enjoyment from these flights of fancy than from any novel produced by someone else’s imagination. Last, yes, you will be able to use the same pass to go back to the airport, as long as it is within the 7 day period from its first used.

After the worker reports his finding, local law enforcement is quick to rule the incident a double suicide; the man’s overcoat and woman’s kimono are unruffled, and there is no sign of struggle. Credited with popularizing the genre among readers in his country, Matsumoto became his nation's best-selling and highest earning author in the 1960s.

Also if I’m taking the Narita Express to Tokyo then taking the bullet train to Tokyo which stop should I get off for that? Ma, almeno agli occhi di Torigai Jutaro, vecchio investigatore dall’aria indolente e dagli abiti logori, e del suo giovane collega di Tokyo, Mihara Kiichi, qualcosa non torna: se i due sono arrivati con il medesimo rapido da Tokyo, perché mai lui, Sayama Ken’ichi, funzionario di un ministero al centro di un grosso scandalo per corruzione, è rimasto cinque giorni chiuso in albergo in attesa di una telefonata? Hello, we are planning to go to the airport from Tokyo station to Narita airport Terminal 3 to catch a flight to Sapporo. I have seen an alternate route to Fuji-Q Highland from Shinjuku Station to Otsuki Station then change for the Fuji Express Line to Fuji-Q Highland. The premise made me think that this would be a whodunnit with some noir undertones, but it soon became apparent that the mystery driving the narrative was more of the whydunnit variety.