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Old Aug 14, 2007 | 7:00 pm
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Originally Posted by phaleesy
2. Question specific to UK residents (LapLap comes to mind )
Where do you normally buy your passes from? The only place I can think of is the Japan centre at Piccadilly Circus.
wr_schwab has kindly posted a link to all the different places where you can purchase them. I've only bought railpasses once (until recently MrLapLap wasn't elegible) and Gendai have been good to me so I chose them.

Just pick whichever place is convenient to you, and try and pick a date when the exchange rate is favourable - around now is fine.

Bear in mind also that most of the Japanese companies will charge a 2% commission fee. You might want to pay in cash or see if someone like Trailfinders will waive it.

Last edited by LapLap; Aug 14, 2007 at 7:37 pm
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