"Two routes"

routes serviced by more than one company

The term two routes (or called double tracks in Japanese) means that exists two routes exist between places of origin and the destination. An example of the two routes is, between Osaka and Nagasaki, and Osaka and Kagoshima (Note: Please confirm departure and arrival points for each routes). Between Tokyo and Okayama exists as the "five routes".

Reminder, if one route is fully booked another route can still have vacant seats! Besides, you can choose from nine different routes between Tokyo and Osaka .

 In Tokyo these buses depart from Tokyo Station, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Shinagawa and Akihabara. In Osaka, buses leave from around Osaka Station (Sakurabashi Exit, Hankyu Sanban-gai, Harbis Osaka and Subway Higashi Umeda Station) or from Southern districts (Nanba, Abenobashi (Tennoji) and Universal Studios Japan).

Furthermore, if these routes are fully booked, other alternative routes are sometimes possible from nearby. For example from Tokyo to Osaka, take a train to Tachikawa and Yokohama, for other routes to Osaka. In Osaka, use other routes to Kobe, Kyoto and Nara and can coincide with train to Osaka from these places.