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Kansai rail fares and pass prices, checked 2026-09-03
15 rail journeys around Nara, Kyoto and Osaka with adult one-way ordinary-class fares and journey times, plus 8 JR and Kintetsu passes with prices, validity and which operator each one covers.
Fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
fare_jpy | Adult one-way ordinary-class fare in yen. Excludes limited express surcharges. |
operator | jr or kintetsu. Determines which passes apply. |
minutes | Typical door-to-door rail time on the fastest covered service. |
covers | Operators a pass is valid on. A pass is never valid across both. |
lastChecked | Date the figures were last confirmed against the operator's own site. |
Recorded cherry blossom dates for Nara, 2011–2026
First-flowering and full-bloom dates for Nara city as observed by the Japan Meteorological Agency on its designated sample tree, to the national standard, with the long-term average.
Nara deer: population, mortality and visitor injuries
Nineteen years of July census counts split by stags, hinds and fawns; eighteen years of recorded causes of death; and the prefecture's breakdown of how severe visitor injuries were and what people were doing when they happened. None of this is published in English by the bodies that collect it.
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Coming next: a year-by-year bloom record for each of Mount Yoshino's four groves, which is the figure everyone wants and nobody publishes in a form we can yet source.