Shinkansen smartEX App
Central Japan Railway Company
1.7 ★
503 ratings
Free
In this transportation app, you can reserve Shinkansen seats, book hotels, and plan activities. Includes seat selection, reservation management, and station information.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 1.4. Trustworthiness 82 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 25 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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1.4
AppRecs Rating
Ratings breakdown
5 star
12%
4 star
4%
3 star
2%
2 star
2%
1 star
79%
What to know
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Pricing complaints
Many low ratings mention paywalls or pricing
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Mixed user feedback
Average 1.7★ rating suggests room for improvement
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High negative review ratio
82% of sampled ratings are 1–2 stars
About Shinkansen smartEX App
- 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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Reviews for Shinkansen smartEX App
Jvg312002
Great app
I do t know why it’s rated so low, I’ve used this app to buy tickets several times during the last 2 years and it’s so much easier than buying at stations and I love that you just scan the QR code, no keeping track of physical tickets and worrying about loosing them.
internetboy999
not functional
just straight up doesnt work at all. dont even use this it wont accept any cards you have. shameful