{"id":175042,"date":"2025-12-18T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=175042&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:00:12","slug":"jr-reports-about-40-of-holiday-shinkansen-seats-booked","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-reports-about-40-of-holiday-shinkansen-seats-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Reports About 40% of Holiday Shinkansen Seats Booked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JR West and JR Kyushu said about 40% of reserved seats on Shinkansen services have already been booked for the year-end and New Year holiday period. JR West expects the busiest outbound travel day on the Sanyo Shinkansen to be December 27, with return travel peaking on January 3. Of roughly 2.78 million reserved seats, around four in ten are already taken. During the holiday period, all Nozomi services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines will operate with reserved seating only. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrkyushu.co.jp\/common\/inc\/news\/newtopics\/__icsFiles\/afieldfile\/2025\/12\/16\/2025125_nennmatsunenshi_shiteiseki_yoyaku.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\u201c_blank\u201d><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JR Kyushu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westjr.co.jp\/press\/article\/items\/251216_00_press_shiteisekiyoyaku_2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\u201c_blank\u201d><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JR West<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_hakata-sta-shinkansen_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_hakata-sta-shinkansen_2021_WEB.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_hakata-sta-shinkansen_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_hakata-sta-shinkansen_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fnn_hakata-sta-shinkansen_2021_WEB.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo: Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JR West and JR Kyushu said about 40% of reserved seats on Shinkansen services have already been booked for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":149207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-175042","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/175042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}