Hirakata to Aihara bus

Buses from Hirakata to Aihara start at €22.73 and take 5h 58m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Hirakata to Aihara starts at €22.73 and takes 5h 58m door to door, run by 2 operators over 396 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 29 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 5h 58mDoor to door
  • 5h 14mMoving
  • €22.73 to €40.88From
  • 06:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 5Per day
  • 10.7 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 29 September 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€22.73 to €40.88 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €39.78Mon14
  2. about €35.38Tue15
  3. about €35.93Wed16
  4. about €40.88Thu17
  5. about €37.03Fri18
  6. about €39.23Sat19
  7. about €38.13Sun20
  8. about €23.28Mon21
  9. about €22.73Tue22
  10. about €29.33Wed23
  11. about €37.58Thu24
  12. about €29.33Fri25
  13. about €33.18Sat26
  14. about €26.03Sun27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 29 September 2026

Cheapest€20.53
  1. 神姫観光 S-465306:435h 14m11:57樟葉駅多摩センター駅

Door to door 5h 58mCO2 10.7 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
神姫観光€20.535h 58m
株式会社高知駅前観光€21.085h 56m

The coach gets you into Aihara. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Aihara for the night the coach gets in

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Booking window

When to book Hirakata to Aihara

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €24.9390 days
  2. €18.8860 days
  3. €18.8845 days
  4. €15.5830 days
  5. €24.9321 days
  6. €26.0314 days
  7. €38.137 days
  8. €35.933 days
  9. €39.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €15.58.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 155 percent. The dearest point is €39.78, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €26.03Sun
  2. €23.28Mon
  3. €22.73Tue
  4. €29.33Wed
  5. €37.58Thu
  6. €29.33Fri
  7. €33.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Hirakata

Coach
  • 樟葉駅
  • 京田辺バスストップ

Aihara

Coach
  • 多摩センター駅
  • 小山田
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 396 km against 344 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Nagoya, Ichinomiya, Toyota, Okazaki. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Hirakata at 06:30 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Hirakata to Aihara

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara take?

The Coach from Hirakata to Aihara takes 5h 58m door to door, of which 5h 14m is spent moving. The route runs 396 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara cost?

The Coach from Hirakata to Aihara starts at €22.73 for one passenger, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare is €24.92. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara?

2 operators run the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara: 神姫観光, 株式会社高知駅前観光. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara use?

The Coach from Hirakata to Aihara leaves from 樟葉駅 and arrives at 多摩センター駅. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara?

Fares for the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €15.58. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 155 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara produce?

The Coach from Hirakata to Aihara produces about 10.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 396 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara?

Operators on the Coach from Hirakata to Aihara publish Power sockets, Toilets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 5h 58m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Hirakata to Aihara on 13 September 2026: 396 km of route against 344 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €22.73, and 5h 58m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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