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FAQ #3   How to get to Shin-Osaka (Nagoya, Kyoto) 

Heidi:   I'd like to go to Shin-Osaka this afternoon around 4:00.   Would you kindly teach me how I can get Shin-Osaka? 

Peter:   Sure.   By the way, do you have a JR Pass with you?   If you have, you can use it but have to buy a ticket to Odawara stn (￥300) unless you have a Hakone Free Pass.  If you don't, buy a ticket to Odawra, then you can buy a ticket for Shinkansen at Odawara stn.

   Anyway, after buying a ticket, take a train from track #2 to Odawara stn, and change to Shinkansen.   At Odawara stn, after passing through the ticket gate, you can find a stairway on your right.    Go downstairs and turn left.   The the ticket gates for Shinkansen are just 20 m ahead.   If you buy a Shinkansen ticket, there is the ticket office just around the corner.

   Well, please remember there are 3 kinds of Shinkansen, KODAMA (normal speed), HIKARI (faster) and NOZOMI (fastest).    You can take KODAMA or HIKARI from Odawara stn.

   When you go to Shin-Osaka, there are 3 ways you can choose.

   1st one:    Take KODAMA for Shin -Osaka departing at every 37 mins past the hour  (3 hrs 15 mins).   
   2nd one:  Take KODAMA for Nagoya departing at every 4 (sometimes 7) mins past the hour, and there change to HIKARI to Shin-Osaka (3 hrs 30 mins).
   3rd one:    Take HIKARI for Shin-Osaka departing at 4:09 (2 hrs 20 mins). 
             
※　HIKARI for Nagoya, Kyoto and Shin-Osaka that stops at Odawara stn:
       6:16  7:04  8:09  10:09  12:09  14:09  16:09 and 18:09

   Please remember it takes about 15 mins by train from Hakone-Yumoto stn to Odawara stn.   Have a nice trip!