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If I purchase a 7 day pass and use it at 8am on day one, will I only be able to use it until the same time on day 7? Or will I be able to use it up to 11.59pm on day 7?

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7 day pass is valid for 7 full days or part days. No details about time of activation are recorded on the pass.

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So in your example, if you activate your pass at 8 am on a Monday, it will expire at midnight on following Sunday (i.e. you can board a train right up to midnight, but have to get off at the first station you come to past midnight).

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From http://www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en008.html</a>

"If you travel overnight on the last day your pass is valid, the basic fare will be covered as far as you travel, including train changes, until you first exit a station. However, surcharges are only covered for the train on which you were riding past midnight on the final day your pass was valid."

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Would add an example to the fineprint on #3.

Providing you take the 'Nobinobi seat', a carpeted semi private compartment in the limited express 'Sunrise Seto-Izumo' from Himeji at 23:35hrs on day 7 to Tokyo, you don't need to pay anything for the day 8 portion on that particular train ride. The train arrives at Tokyo at 7:08 on day 8.

Furthermore, you can take connecting trains to, say, Sapporo on day 8 as long as you don't clear a turnstile en route. In that case, you will be imposed for the limited express surcharges between Tokyo and Sapporo. Only the base fare is valid on that segment, even though the 7 day JR pass superficially looks void on day 8. The Shinkansen - (limited) express surcharge connection discount scheme works in this case as well.

The above case in the third paragraph ( Tokyo to Sapporo trip on date 8 ) is idiosyncratic, therefore those who try to carry out a similar itinerary should carry the fine print of the JR pass in Japanese with you so that the ticket counter clerk and the conductors might not misunderstand you by producing it to them.
http://www.japanrailpass.net/ja/ja008.html
#5 in the first clause.

I contacted JR East, and the rep thoroughly scrutinized this matter ( it took half an hour ). so I can vouch for the credibility of what I have described.

Edited by: optimistk

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