Shinkansen smartEX App

Tokaido/Sanyo/KyushuShinkansen

Published by: Central Japan Railway

Description

▼With the EX app, you can:
- Reserve Shinkansen seats through the app easily
- Discount for early booking
- Reserve Shinkansen seats up to 1 year in advance
- You can make as many changes as you need, free of charge, before getting on the train
- Reserve a set of Shinkansen seats and hotel rooms!
- Reserve activities, hotels and car rentals!
- Select any seat from the seat map (*reserved seats only)
- Information on services available in stations and trains
- You can log in quickly by using fingerprint authentication.
(only for compatible models)
▼ Main features
- Membership registration
- Purchase ticket/Reserve seats (time designation, train name designation, easy free seat reservation))
- Confirm reservation
- Change and refund reservation (reducing the number of persons)
- Display purchase history and receipt
- Check, change member information
- Display QR-Ticket for boarding
- Designate or register IC card for boarding
- Service status information (Link)
▼ Notes
- Membership registration is required to use this app. For registration, personal information is required, such as member name, date of birth, and a valid credit card, etc.
- Ticket purchase (reservation) payment will be taken from the credit card registered on the account.
-- You need to register or designate IC card for public transportation (*) to travel ticketless with IC card.
(*) Kitaca, PASMO, Suica, manaca, TOICA, PiTaPa, ICOCA, Hayakaken, nimoca, SUGOCA
- You need the pickup code to pick up tickets from ticket vending machines, etc., at main stations of Tokaido Sanyo Kyushu Shinkansen, such as Tokyo, Kyoto, Shin-Osaka, Hiroshima, Hakata, Kumamoto etc.
- Please do not use this app to make a seat reservation for Japan Rail Pass.
- This service is available only in English.
- For more details on this service, please see the website.
*The email address below is for inquiries about application specifications. Please note that we cannnot answer inquiries about the service.
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User Rating

1.85 out of 5

39 ratings in Canada

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Ratings History

Shinkansen smartEX App Reviews

Account temporary suspended after purchasing tickets

Cotton-tail-rabbit on

Canada

Account got “temporary suspended” the day after successfully purchased tickets when I was in Hong Kong using a Canadian Amex. Luckily I saved all the QR codes to my apple wallet right after the purchase and exiting the app. So now I have no idea if these tickets are still valid because there no way I can login to the app again to check. You can ONLY call them on phone with account issues which I have yet to do. Anyway I am travelling in three days and I will just head to a JR office to see if these tickets are still valid.

Terrible

kerokeejim on

Canada

Need to add credit card but cannot process any credit cards from Canada or the USA, simply terrible design and even less user friendly than the terminals

Works fine

rinc2011 on

Canada

I used in Japan to buy some shinkansen tickets. It worked perfectly. I used a canadian mastercard. Maybe you need to be in Japan to make it works. Adding the tickets to my Apple Wallet was a little bit tricky, but when I figure out how to do it, it was fine.

Canadian cc worked

Beeuer on

Canada

Surprised that my Canadian cc registered except prices seemed better on klook

Terrible app

grap on

Canada

Will not work without adding credit card details. Does but accept any card outside of Japan so Canadian and American cards do not work. Terrible app, avoid

Made me wonder whether this is a scheme app

andy_hoho on

Canada

No credit cards worked - some don’t even ask for cvc code. What a poorly developed app!

So many problems, where do I begin…

sincerelyangrycustomer on

Canada

First off, I tried 5 different Canadian credit cards and the only one I could get to work was a Gold AMEX (my dad’s card which we won’t even be bringing on the trip). Second, I have tried on several attempts to login to the app, but no matter what time of day (JST or EST), the app seems to be under maintenance. Fast forward to 30 days before my first shinkansen ride, I planned to reserve an oversized baggage seat. I logged in fine, and was able to see what trains were available. However, the app timed out when I had to figure something out. And when I tried to log back in and try to make the reservation again, the app had gone back into maintenance and I have been unable to login in since. I’ve downloaded this app for about 2 months now, and I’d say of all the times I’ve tried to log in, I’ve only been successful maybe 3 times. Overall poor experience with attempting to book shinkansen tickets overseas, especially with the SmartEX app. Especially since I had higher expectations for this app after people and their website raved about its convenience.

壊れたアプリ

Kcmongoose on

Canada

このアプリの製作者は、その家名と先祖に恥をかかせます。クレジットカード認証は明らかに破綻しています。

App does not work

Bypassing Logic on

Canada

I was hoping to be like that one person in the review who says they got the credit card registration to work, but alas.

Useless app for travellers

粉腸一碟 on

Canada

This app can never authenticate a credit card issued outside of Japan. It is useless to even put on the App Store. I would put no star if possible.

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App Info

Category
Travel
Languages
English
Recent release
8.1.16 (4 weeks ago )
Released on
Oct 30, 2017 (7 years ago )
Last Updated
6 days ago
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