Odakyu Electric Railway Upgrades Website for Ticket Purchase to Allow Passengers through Traditional and Simplified Chinese

TOKYO, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. on December 1, It has upgraded its ticket purchasing website, offering discounted tickets such as “Hakone Freepass” and “Limited Express Romancecar”, to make it easier for passengers to use in both simplified and traditional Chinese.

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1. About Odakyu’s digital ticket purchase website
This browser-based website allows passengers without the need to download an app to buy Odakyu tickets. Passengers can purchase tickets anywhere and anytime they want. Passengers can show their smartphone’s digital tickets to the attendants and board a train or bus. They also have the option of holding a 2D code from a separate device that they can use instead of exchanging for printed tickets.

Odakyu’s digital ticket purchase website
– English: https://www.emot-tickets.jp/areas?&site=odakyuglobal&language=en
– Traditional Chinese https://www.emot-tickets.jp/areas?&site=odakyuglobal&language=tc
– Simplified Chinese https://www.emot-tickets.jp/areas?&site=odakyuglobal&language=sc

*Only credit cards are accepted.
*Personal computers and tablets cannot be used since it is a smartphone-only service.
*Each passenger is required to have a smartphone.

2. You can purchase digital tickets in both simplified and traditional Chinese.
(1) Digital Hakone Freepass
Features:
The Hakone Area Pass allows unlimited use of eight transportation services.
– This pass includes a round trip discount ticket for Odakyu Line (between the starting station and Odawara Station).
Discounts and other benefits available at approximately 70 affiliated facilities

Prices:
– 2-day pass: 6,100 yen (adults), 1,100 yen Children aged 6-11 years.
– 3-day pass: 6,500 yen (adults), 1,350 yen (children 6-11 years old).

(2) Digital Enoshima-Kamakura Freepass
Features:
– This pass is good for unlimited rides on the Odakyu line in the Enoshima Kamakura (between Katase Enoshima Station and Fujisawa Station) as well as the Enoden (Enoshima Electrical Railway).
The pass includes a round trip discount ticket for Odakyu Line (between the starting station and Fujisawa Station).
Discounts and other benefits offered by approximately 25 affiliated facilities

Prices:
1,640 yen (adults), 430 yen (children 6-11 years old).

(3) Limited Express Romancecar — EMot Digital Limited Express ticket
Features:
All reserved seats on Limited Express Romancecars
Passengers can take in beautiful scenes through large windows.

Prices:
1,150 yen (adults), 580 yen Children 6-11 years old, between Shinjuku Station (Hakone-Yumoto Station)
700 yen (adults), 350 yen (children 6-11 years) Between Shinjuku Station & Katase Enoshima Station
*The prices indicated are applicable only when purchased online.
*Passengers taking a Romancecar are required to buy a regular ticket and the like in addition to a limited express ticket.

(4) Enoden 1-day pass ticket “Noriorikun” (digital version)
Features:
– Unlimited rides on the Enoden (Enoshima Electric Railway)
Affiliated facilities offer discounts and other benefits.

Prices:
800 yen (adults), 400 yen (Children aged 6-11).

3. How to buy tickets
You can visit the Odakyu Electric Railway’s official website from your smartphone by tapping the “purchase” button. This will take you to the ticket purchase site.

Image from Odakyu’s website: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/prwfile/release/M104691/202212141176/_prw_PI1fl_cBOXQJrl.jpg

Official Website of Odakyu Electric Railway
– English: https://www.odakyu.jp/english/
– Traditional Chinese https://www.odakyu.jp/tc/
– Simplified Chinese https://www.odakyu.jp/sc/

About Odakyu Electric Railway Co. Ltd.
Odakyu Electric Railway was established in 1948. Japan’s major private railway companies. Shinjuku Central Transportation Terminal in the capital Japan, TokyoThe Odakyu Lines reach Hakone, which is one of Japan’s most important cities. Japan’s Enoshima Kamakura is the historic seaside town located close to the city centre, which are the top hot spring tourist destinations. More than 1.5 million people use them daily for their commutes and sightseeing. Odakyu also runs a number of businesses, mostly in the area of transportation. Tokyo Kanagawa and surrounding areas such as department shops, supermarkets, real property, hotels, restaurants, and real estate.

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