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Overnight local trains
Note that 18 kippu comes into effect after 0 a.m. So you have to buy
a normal ticket to the station whose arrival time passes 0 a.m.
Moonlight Nagara (Tokyo - Nagoya - Ogaki)
This is surely far cheaper way to travel from Tokyo to Kyoto and
Osaka than any other transport during Seishun 18 kippu seasons.
Ogaki itself is a small city, but changing the next local train, you
can easily extend your journey to western Japan or even Shikoku and
Kyusyu Island. Leave Tokyo in midnight, change trains at Ogaki and
Maibara, and arrive at Kyoto and Osaka in the next morning before
10 a.m. Moreover, reach Hiroshima in the afternoon and
Hakata (Fukuoka) in the night within 3,000 yen!
Running the busiest corridor in Japan, this is the most popular
overnight local train. This train consists of reserved seats only
(although some of the carriages change to non-reserved seats on the
way). When 18 kippu is valid, tickets are always sold out as soon as
being put on sale in ten o'clock one month prior to the departure.
So additional local train operates between Shinagawa (the third
station from Tokyo) and Ogaki in such busy season.
When you travel westbound from Tokyo to Osaka, you should by the
ticket to Yokohama (480 yen) in addition to 18 kippu. When
eastbound, date changes in Anjo (the town which locates between
Nagoya and Toyohashi); from Osaka to Anjo is as much as 3,890 yen,
so in this case two 18 kippu will be used.
In Moonlight Nagara, lights are not put out throughout the night.
Especially during holiday seasons when many student groups come,
passengers are expected to be talking till 3 or 4 a.m..
Now Moonlight Nagara is composed of all reserved cars and passengers
have to make reservation prior to travel.