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Originally Posted by martha

Sounds amazing. Glad you had a good time.

We're going soon and are getting a 7 day pass so some of our travel round Tokyo won't be covered. Can you just pay cash for the local trains there?

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Yes you can use cash or if you get the Suica card you can pay with that. There are ticket machines and at the station our hotel was next to (Shinagawa) there was always someone at the machines to help tourists. There was also a route finder machine where you clicked the station you were leaving from and wanted to arrive at and it would give you a print out of times, platform etc. if you are not sure how to get somewhere.

I must admit though the rail pass made it really simple. We only used the metro once in Tokyo.