1.10.09

trans siberian railway tickets price

In August, I took a trip from Tokyo to Berlin by surface transportation. I got on and off the train at the several train stations, but I would like to review how much the entire tickets cost. The detail is below.
fromtounitcurrencytrain nr/ferryclass
TokyoFushiki11220JPYToki/HakutakaSeat
FushikiVladivostok44000JPYrus4th
VladivostokKhabarovsk920.9RUR201Platskart
KhabarovskUlan Ude2616.8RUR31Platskart
Ulan UdeIrkutsk915.3RUR1Platskart
IrkutskKrasnoyarsk1025.6RUR63Platskart
KrasnoyarskNovosibirsk881.4RUR53Platskart
NovosibirskSverdlovsk2340.8RUR37Platskart
SverdlovskMoscow2485.8RUR9Platskart
MoscowSt. Petersburg2501.2RUR4Kupe
St. PetersburgVilnius3991RUR91Kupe
VilniusSestokai25.3LTL393Seat
SestokaiWarsaw48.68LTL910TASeat
WarsawBerlin203.04PLN448Seat

Suppose RUR/JPY=3.1, LTL/JPY=38, PLN/JPY=34 and EUR/JPY=138.
In total, it cost 119,739JPY (867 EUR).
Tokyo-Vladivostok cost 55,220JPY(400EUR)
Vladivostok-Moscow cost 34,678JPY(251EUR)
Moscow-Berlin cost 29,840JPY(216EUR)

What is remarkable is that the Trans-Siberian journey from Vladivostok to Moscow is only 30% of the total cost.

From Irkutsk to Moscow I could buy tickets by my credit card.

1 comment:

Andersreisender said...

Hi! This ticket-review is very interesting! In some traveller-books they write, that buying tickets in Russia is much complicated. I don't think so. I also did the Transsiberian in January 2009 and I also bought some tickets in Russia. I also want to take the ferry from Vladivostok to Japan. Would be verry interesting. Perhaps I will do it next year :-)