If you are going to use a lot of railways in Tokyo, I highly recommend you to buy the card, I am not sure the difference between Pasmo and Suica but they roughly similar. If you would like, you could read my previous post about the cards.
Noted if you are going to travel not only in Tokyo, but also Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Fukuoka and other further places in Japan, I suggest you to buy JR Pass. JR Pass will allow you to travel far distance with relatively cheaper price rather than when you buy it on the spot one ticket at a time. Its only worth it when you used it at least for a round trip from tokyo-osaka, for instance. Notice that it could only be ordered outside of Japan (order it from your country) and then claim it at Narita/stations (the stations are mentioned in the ticket). There are JR pass for 7 days or 14 days (and maybe more, I am not sure). There are two types, the green one and the usual one. Both can't be used for Nozomi and Hikari Shinkansen.
Noted if you are going to travel not only in Tokyo, but also Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Fukuoka and other further places in Japan, I suggest you to buy JR Pass. JR Pass will allow you to travel far distance with relatively cheaper price rather than when you buy it on the spot one ticket at a time. Its only worth it when you used it at least for a round trip from tokyo-osaka, for instance. Notice that it could only be ordered outside of Japan (order it from your country) and then claim it at Narita/stations (the stations are mentioned in the ticket). There are JR pass for 7 days or 14 days (and maybe more, I am not sure). There are two types, the green one and the usual one. Both can't be used for Nozomi and Hikari Shinkansen.
The price for 7 days is around 30000yen with tax and for 14 days is around 40.000 yen with tax. There should be a representative JR ticket office in your country. In US: http://www.japanrailpass.net/sphone/en/about_jrp.html and in Indonesia:. http://railpass-japan.com. The ticket can be ordered online and mailed to your address (How I miss US for this ease, I can do it in Indonesia as well but I dont really trust the system haha).
However you can also get it from any travel agent, they also sell it usually. There are some eligibility to buy the pass: you should have foreign passport, buy it in 3 months begore your journey & some other eligibilities. Please check it out before you buy it.
Hibarigaoka station, Tokyo, Japan.
Morning commute with a lot of people inside the train. With that station master/whoever 's push people so they can fit in the train and the train door could be closed. Its real. Omg. what an experience.
7/22/2015
