Tokyo Metro Pass

To take metro lines in Tokyo conveniently, many visitors prefer to buy a Tokyo subway pass. It is useful and cost-effective indeed as long as you will take the metro lines frequently during the validity period. Nevertheless, you have to make their range of application clear before you buy one.

1-3 Days Tokyo Subway Ticket

Tokyo Subway Ticket for 1 Day/2 Days/3 Days

This is the most popularized Tokyo metro pass for oversea visitors to the city, with the conspicuous words “Tokyo Subway 24-hour/48-hour-72-hour Ticket” on the card. The 24 hours Tokyo subway ticket is made in red, while the 48 hours pass and 72 hours pass are in blue and yellow, respectively. With the Tokyo subway ticket, you can take the metro lines in Tokyo, of both Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway corporations, unlimitedly within the 24/48/72 hours after the first use.

Tokyo Subway Ticket Booked Online

Where to Purchase:

You can get one at the airport on arrival in Tokyo, or every metro station in the city issue the pass.

Valid routes:

All Tokyo Metro and Toei subway lines

Price:

  24 hours Tokyo subway pass: JPY 800 per adult
  48 hours pass: JPY 1,200 per adult
  72 hours pass: JPY 1,500 per adult
  Half price for each child under 12 years old

24/48/72 Hours Tokyo Subway Pass of PASMO IC Card

PASMO Tokyo Subway Pass

PASMO is one of the two widely used transportation cards in Tokyo. It also launches metro pass for Tokyo subway lines, in the same prices with Tokyo Subway Pass that has been mentioned at the beginning. Also, it is valid on all the 13 metro lines of both Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway.

Apart from the words of “Tokyo Subway 24/48/72-hour Ticket”, there is also the pattern of PASMO and the validity period. Overall, it is valid in the corresponding hours from the moment you buy the ticket. It should be noted that, if you haven’t had a PASMO card, you will get a Tokyo metro pass. If you have had a PASMO card, the information of the Tokyo subway pass will be added to your card, as long as no information of other metro pass is found on your card.

Where to Buy:

The metro pass office at metro stations on Tokyo Metro lines

Common 1 Day Tokyo Metro Pass

The common Tokyo metro pass is also a choice to take all the metro lines in Tokyo, including both Toei Subway lines and Tokyo Metro lines. There are the words ““Common One-day Ticket for Toei Subway & Tokyo Metro” on the subway pass, actually a card, with the patterns of a metro train as well as the number and name of each metro line in Tokyo. It is valid in 24 hours, since you use it for the first time on that day you purchase the day pass or any day during the validity period that recorded on the back of the advance pass.

Advance Common 1 Day Tokyo Subway Ticket

Where to Purchase:

  Advance Tokyo subway ticket: the metro pass office at Tokyo Metro stations; most metro stations of Toei Subway stations: Oshiage, Meguro, Shirokanedai, Shirokane-takanawa, and Shinjuku stations are excluded
  Day Ticket: the self-service ticketing machines at both Toei Subway and Tokyo Metro stations 

Valid routes:

Both Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway lines

Price:

JPY 900 per adult; half price per child

24-Hour Tokyo Subway Pass of Tokyo Metro

Advance 24H Pass for Tokyo Metro

The 24-hour Tokyo subway pass is valid to take the 9 lines of Tokyo Metro only. There are the advance ticket and day ticket on that day. With an advance ticket, you can select any day within 6 months from the date of ticket sale, and it is valid within 1 day from the first use. The day ticket is also valid for 24 hours but it can merely be utilized on that day you buy it. If you don’t use the day ticket on that day of purchase, the pass will become void.

Where to Purchase:

  Advance ticket: the metro pass office at each metro station of Tokyo Metro
  Day Ticket: the self-service ticketing machine at Tokyo Metro stations

Valid routes:

All Tokyo Metro lines

Price:

JPY 600 per adult; half price per child

Tokyo Metro Pass 1 Day of Toei Subway

Toei 1 Day Pass

Toei subway also has the 1 day Tokyo subway pass for visitors. Actually, it is not a metro pass completely, as it can be utilized to take Toei metro lines, Toei buses (city buses), Tokyo Sakura Tram, and Nippori-Toneri Liner; in short, all the vehicles operated by Toei. The validity period is that day you buy it until the 04:00 am of the next day. If you book it in advance, you can use it on any one day within 6 months from the date of sale.

Where to Purchase:

Any Toei metro station, or on the Toei buses

Valid routes:

All Toei lines

Price:

JPY 700 per adult; half price for a child

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