If you want to watch Kyoto Arashiyama Train, you must first buy a ticket. There are two ways to buy tickets. One is to book on the official website, and the other is to choose to buy tickets on site. The main thing is Let’s see which one everyone can accept more. Official website booking
Official Chinese website: /goyoyaku/e5489/ticket/915061/
Ordinary one-way tickets are priced the same wherever you get on and off: 620_ for adults and 310_ for children.
You need to make a reservation on the official website one month in advance. The official website reservation time is only during JR West’s business hours (Japan time 5:30-23:30)
Enter this page to purchase Tickets are enough:
1. The Chinese website will only release the first carriage, and there are about 50 tickets. If there are no tickets on the Chinese website, it is recommended to buy tickets from the Sunrise official website
2. Payment method: You can only pay by credit card online, and you cannot pay at the station.
How to collect tickets:
Post-dated tickets must be collected from the green ticket machines at major JR West stations and at the green ticket gates. Be careful when picking up tickets, such as: ① the credit card used for online payment, ② reservation number, ③ authentication number
Tickets can only be picked up at JR West ticket offices, whether it is JR Tokai or JR East. Tickets cannot be collected at the ticket offices in Japan, JR Shikoku, and JR Kyushu. Tickets cannot be collected from travel agencies or ticket offices at various train stations. Buy tickets on-site
First of all, you have to get up early, and secondly, there are so many people queuing up during the peak season. You can only buy tickets on-site for the fifth carriage!
Station business hours:
Train Saga Station: 8:35
Train Arashiyama Station: 8:40
Train Oka Station: around 8:50
(If If there are a lot of people in line, ticket sales may start earlier)