Transport guides · one city at a time

Getting around,
checked at the source

Airport transfers, fare cards, passes and station survival guides — every figure taken from the operator that publishes it, with the link on the page and the month it was checked. Tokyo is live. London is next.

Cities

We build one city at a time and finish it before starting the next. A single city covered properly is worth more than six covered thinly — and it is the only way to keep every fare on the site current.

Live
Tokyo
東京 · JR · Metro · Toei · Keisei · Keikyū
Two airports on opposite sides of the city, thirteen subway lines run by two companies that don't share a fare, and a rail pass whose maths changed in 2023. Seven guides covering the arrival and the first week.
Tokyo transport guide →
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London
Underground · Elizabeth line · Heathrow · Gatwick
Contactless capping, six airports of wildly varying usefulness, and zone fares that punish a single wrong tap. In the queue behind Tokyo.
Not yet published

The Numbers People Arrive Looking For

A sample of what's on the Tokyo pages. Every one of these carries its source and the date it was checked.

Tokyo, at a glance
Narita → Tokyo Station on the Narita Express
¥6,280 return · 53 min
Narita → central Tokyo on the Keisei Skyliner
¥2,580 · 36 min
Haneda → Hamamatsuchō on the Tokyo Monorail
¥520 · ~20 min
Tokyo Metro single ride, shortest band
¥180 · ¥178 with IC
Tokyo Subway Ticket, 72 hours
¥2,000
Japan Rail Pass, 7 days ordinary
¥50,000 · rising Oct 1
Suica deposit
¥500 · refundable

How This Site Works

Every fare, journey time, opening hour and station detail here comes from the operator that publishes it — for Tokyo that means JR East, Keisei, Keikyū, Tokyo Monorail, Tokyo Metro, Toei, Narita Airport, Haneda Airport and the official Japan Rail Pass site. The source sits next to the fact, and each page carries the month it was verified. Pages get re-checked on a schedule, not when someone happens to notice.

Where a number is missing, that is deliberate. Several Japanese operators publish fares only through an interactive journey planner, and a few publish none in English. Rather than copy a figure from a travel blog, those pages link to the operator's own fare search and say so plainly. Tokyo transit content in English goes stale unusually fast — IC card availability, rail pass prices and subway ticket prices have all moved in the last three years — and copied numbers are how that happens.

Prices are quoted in yen, because that is what the operator charges. Approximate US dollar figures are given for orientation only, converted at ¥163 to US$1 as of 30 July 2026; the rate moves, the yen figure does not. Spotted something out of date? Tell us — corrections are the point.

Common Questions

Which cities does InfoForCity cover?
Tokyo is live now, covering Narita and Haneda airport transfers, Suica and PASMO IC cards, whether the Japan Rail Pass is worth buying, the Tokyo Metro and Toei subway networks, and Shinjuku Station. London is next. New York and San Francisco are covered on our sister sites infofornyc.com and infoforsf.com. We build one city at a time, in full, rather than publishing thin coverage of many. Tokyo guides →
Where do the fares on this site come from?
From the operator that sets them, checked when the page is written and re-checked on a monthly schedule. For Tokyo that means JR East, Keisei, Keikyū, Tokyo Monorail, Tokyo Metro, Toei, Narita Airport, Haneda Airport and the official Japan Rail Pass site. Every figure carries a link to its source and the month it was verified.
Why are some fares missing from the pages?
Because some operators publish a fare only through an interactive search rather than a table, and a few publish nothing in English at all. Where that happens we link to the operator's own fare search instead of printing a number we cannot source. Copying a figure from a travel blog is how stale fares spread, and Tokyo transit content in English is unusually stale.

Sister Sites

Two cities we covered before this hub existed. They stay where they are, on their own domains.

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