$ 100 , no sd card tho , you ' ll have to get that on your own . <| sep |> Fwiw my dentist does appointments up until at least 730 in the evening . That ' s something worth researching if you don ' t want to take days off work ? <| sep |> how do you have a concrete underground ? <| sep |> 1 a JR West provides a quite flexible 1 ~ 4 day pass called the Kansai Area Pass , for between 2200 and 6300 yen . This allows unlimited travel bar Shinkansen in most of the places you ' ll go , and if one of the days overlap your trip from the Airport , it covers Haruka as well . Since JR West is just one system , it ' s considered the more newbiefriendly option . 1 b On the competing end , the private rail companies including Osaka subway banded together for the Kansai Thru Pass , which allows 2 or 3 day travel on almost all private rail systems in Kansai for 4000 5200 yen . It ' s a pretty crazy system , and finding transfers the work only within this system can be a hassle 1 c The largest private rail company in Japan behind the JR companies is called Kintetsu , and it sells its own rail pass . The system is less comprehensive of course , but does reach Namba , Nara , and Kyoto . What ' s missing is primarily Osaka city center , but at 3600 yen 5 days , it is quite hard to beat for traveling intercity in Kansai . 2 ICOCA is a contactless IC card , and what you can take or not really depends on whether they have the machine to read it or not . Most buses do . You might also need to pay extra for certain trains like Limited Express ones . 3 Simplest is JR , but multiple private rail companies Hankyu and Keihan run along roughly the same route , to different degrees of speediness and terminal location . 4 You ' ll likely need to ride on buses in Kyoto , as the east side isn ' t quite covered by subways and trains . Day pass for Kyoto bus is 500 yen .