Osaka Enjoy Eco Card (One Day Pass) or Osaka Amazing Pass? - Japan

Osaka is one of popular sightseeing area in Japan. Buying Day Pass helps you to save travel cost. The main 2 types of ticket which normally use in Osaka are Osaka Enjoy Eco Card is also known as Osaka One Day Pass and Osaka Amazing Pass. You may have questions which ticket you should buy. The detail of each ticket are as below.


Osaka Amazing Pass

Osaka Amazing Pass offers unlimited rides of trains and buses in Osaka. The ticket includes the free admission to many sightseeing places. When you buy Osaka Amazing Pass, you will get the pass, the guidebook and Toku x 2 coupons attached on the guidebook. The coupon allows you to receive privileges from 25 facilities.

1 Day Pass: 2,500 yen
It enables unlimited times of rides on the Osaka municipal subway and bus lines, New Tram, and Hankyu, Hanshin, Keihan, Kintetsu and Nankai trains mainly running in Osaka City for one day.

Conditions
*Children’s rate is not applicable.
*It is not applicable for use from Nankai Line Kansai International Airport Station.

*Applicable hours at free admission facilities start at their opening time and end at the last entry time. When using for transportation, it is valid from the first service through the last service within a day. (Not for 24 hours from the time first used.)




2 Day Pass: 3,300 yen
Valid for 2 consecutive days. It enables unlimited times of rides on the Osaka municipal subway and bus lines, and New Tram for two days.

Conditions
*Not applicable to private railways.
*Children’s rate is not applicable.
*It is not applicable for use from Nankai Line Kansai International Airport Station.

*Applicable hours at free admission facilities start at their opening time on the first day and end at the last entry time on the following day. When using for transportations, it is valid from the first service of the first day to the last service of the following day. (Not for 48 hours from the time first used.)

Samples of free admission / facilities by showing the pass.
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- Nakanoshima River Cruise
- Umeda Sky Building Floating Garden Observatory
- Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
- Tsutenkaku Tower
- Nagai Botanical Garden
- Osaka Museum of History
- LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Osaka

*Private Railways (Hankyu, Nankai, Kinki Nippon, Keihan, Hanshin) is available for 1 Day Pass but not for 2 Day Pass. Enjoy Eco Card  (One Day Pass) offers unlimited travel in Osaka on subway, tram and city bus (not include JR) and discount of some sightseeing place in Osaka. It is easy to buy and use. You can buy Enjoy Eco Card at Ticket Vending Machine at Subway Stations in Osaka. Price of ticket between weekdays and weekends are different so please be careful when you would like to purchase the ticket. Please follow my review of Enjoy Eco Card, here

Price
Adult: Weekdays 800 yen
          Weekends and National Holidays 600 yen
Child: 300 yen

Which ticket you should buy

If you travel in Osaka only one day, you can choose Enjoy Eco Card or 1 Day Amazing Pass. Both types of ticket includes the discount to sightseeing spots in Osaka. When compare the price, Amazing Pass is more expensive than Enjoy Eco Card. However, Amazing Pass already includes the admission fee of many sightseeing places while Enjoy Eco Card only offers the discount. I give some samples comparing the admission fee:

Place	Eco Card	Amazing Pass
	Admission Fee (Adult)
Umeda Sky Building	1,000 -> 900 yen	Free
Osaka Museum of Housing and Living	600 -> 500 yen	Free
Tennoji Zoo	500 -> 350 yen	Free
Osaka History Museum	600 -> 450 yen	Free
Tempozan Ferris Wheel	800 -> 700 yen	Free

Regarding the above samples, let's compare the cost:

Amazing Pass: 2,500 yen 
Enjoy Eco Card: 800 yen (weekday) + 900 + 500 + 350 + 450 + 700 = 3,700 yen

This means Amazing Pass save 1,200 yen. Amazing Pass is worth if you visit sightseeing places where covered by the pass, also travel a lot in Osaka but in case of travelling in Osaka and only few visit to sightseeing places, Enjoy Eco Card is better. Both Enjoy Eco Card and Amazing Pass do not cover JR.