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By far the biggest bargain to travel on Osaka’s subway is the No-My-Car-Day Ticket (ノーマイカーフリーチケット). Available every Friday and the 20th of the month, it is an initiative to help reduce cars on the road and increase usage of public transport.
For 600 Yen you can travel all day on the subway and bus system. But be careful as on some lines change from the Osaka municipal line to one owned by various companies. for example, the Chuo line(Dark Green) becomes a Kintetsu owned line after Nagata (you don’t even change trains). The other time the line changes is at Esaka on the Midosuji line (Red). The No-My-Car-Day Ticket won’t cover travel past these stations but apart from that it is great value and if you make more than 2 one-way trips on these days you should definitely get one.
You can get the tickets at the same ticket machines as with normal tickets. A regular day ticket costs 850 Yen.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Papigiulio // Mar 2, 2007 at 5:32 am
600 yen is really fooking cheap. Man japan has really great railway transportation.
Never knew about the no my car day only pass. IS that also n Tokyo or Osaka only??
2 Ian Cheung // Mar 2, 2007 at 9:30 am
I’m not sure about Tokyo. Can anyone living in Tokyo enlighten us?
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