Guide > Regarding Tickets
Ticket Types
Learn more about the ticket types offered by JR Kyushu and how to read your ticket. Please note that these differ from tickets reserved online as well as rail passes.
There are three types of train ticket:
- Base Fare Ticket
- Express Ticket
- Green Car (first-class car) Ticket
1. Base Fare Ticket
Any train travel requires a base fare ticket.
Purchased at the ticketing counter
Purchased at the ticketing counter
- Departure station
- Arrival station
- Beginning date of travel
- Valid period (including departure date)
- Fare
Purchased from automated ticketing machine
(for short distance only)
Purchased from automated ticketing machine
(for short distance only)
- Departure station
IC card (SUGOCA、SUGOMON PASS etc)
IC card (SUGOCA、SUGOMON PASS etc)
Card-type ticket which can be recharged for repeated use.
Purchase location: ticket machine or ticket office
Valid locations: trains/buses/stores with 
mark in Japan
2. Express Ticket
In order to travel by Shinkansen or limited express train, you will need an express ticket in addition to a base fare ticket.
There are two types of express tickets: one for reserved seat, the other for non-reserved seat.
Reserved Seats
Reserved seats refers to securing your seat before boarding. In order to do this, resverved seat ticket is required.
Reserved seat tickets are available for purchase at any JR Kyushu ticketing office (Midori-no-madoguchi) .
(In case JR Kyushu Rail Pass holders purchases the “reserved seat Ticket” directly at the station counter, then additional fee is not required.)
Please note that you can not take a Reserved Seat unless you have a reserved seat ticket.
Reserved Seat Ticket
Reserved Seat Ticket
- Departure station
- Arrival station
- Date of departure
- Train Name
- Fare
- Time of departure
- Time of arrival
- Car number
- Seat number
Non-reserved Seats
Non-reserved seats can be used freely if they are empty.
A Non-Reserved Seat Ticket
A Non-Reserved Seat Ticket
- Departure station
- Arrival station
- Beginning date of travel
- Valid period (including departure date)
- Fare
Reserved Seating Only Trains
Trains listed above only offer reserved seat. Please note that these seats may have already been sold out.
3. Green Car (first-class car) Ticket
In order to travel in the Green Car* of a Shinkansen or an express train, you will need a Green Car Ticket in addition to both a Base Fare and an Express Ticket. The Green Car may not be available for some trains.
*The Green Car is a first-class car with wide seats and other upgrades/amenities.
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