Has ChatGPT cracked travel??

Question

Hi all,

I used ChatGPT to try and pull together a plan of rail travel for my upcoming trip.

What are your thoughts on it's suggestion? Is the plan sensible from an order and travel recommendation perspective?

Me---------------------

Please give me the best and most efficient travel route for the following Japan holiday itinerary. Include details of train times and costs. Please highlight which journeys are covered by the JR Pass and which JR Pass you recommend me to buy.

- Day 0: land in Tokyo Haneda at 12pm, check into hotel Gracery in Shinjuku

- day 1-3 : explore Tokyo

- day 4: travel to and stay overnight in Kawaguchiko

- day 5: travel to Kyoto and check into hotel

- day 6-8: explore Kyoto

- day 9: Travel to Osaka, stopping in Nara en route.

- day 10: explore Osaka

- day 11: visit universal studios Japan

- day 12: travel to Asakusa and check into hotel

- day 13: visit Nikko for a day trip

- day 14: check out of Tokyo and go to the airport Tokyo Haneda

ChatGPT--------------------------

Here is the best and most efficient travel route for your Japan holiday itinerary:

Day 0:

Land in Tokyo Haneda at 12pm.

Take the Tokyo Monorail from Haneda Airport to Hamamatsucho Station (20 minutes, 490 yen).

Transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to Shinjuku Station (10 minutes, 160 yen).

Check into hotel Gracery in Shinjuku.

Note: The Tokyo Monorail is not covered by the JR Pass.

Day 1-3:

Explore Tokyo.

Day 4:

Take the JR Chuo Line from Shinjuku Station to Otsuki Station (1 hour 20 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Transfer to the Fujikyu Railway to Kawaguchiko Station (1 hour, 1,140 yen).

Check into hotel in Kawaguchiko.

Note: The Fujikyu Railway is not covered by the JR Pass.

Day 5:

Take the Fujikyu Railway from Kawaguchiko Station to Otsuki Station (1 hour, 1,140 yen).

Transfer to the JR Chuo Line to Kyoto Station (2 hours 10 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Check into hotel in Kyoto.

Day 6-8:

Explore Kyoto.

Day 9:

Take the JR Nara Line from Kyoto Station to Nara Station (45 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Explore Nara.

Take the JR Yamatoji Line from Nara Station to Osaka Station (50 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Check into hotel in Osaka.

Day 10:

Explore Osaka.

Day 11:

Take the JR Osaka Loop Line from Osaka Station to Universal City Station (15 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Visit Universal Studios Japan.

Day 12:

Take the JR Osaka Loop Line from Osaka Station to Tennoji Station (10 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to Tokyo Station (3 hours, covered by the JR Pass).

Transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to Ueno Station (5 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Transfer to the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line to Asakusa Station (10 minutes, 200 yen).

Check into hotel in Asakusa.

Day 13:

Take the Tobu Railway from Asakusa Station to Tobu Nikko Station (2 hours, 1,360 yen).

Visit Nikko.

Take the Tobu Railway from Tobu Nikko Station to Asakusa Station (2 hours, 1,360 yen).

Note: The Tobu Railway is not covered by the JR Pass.

Day 14:

Check out of hotel in Asakusa.

Take the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line from Asakusa Station to Ueno Station (10 minutes, 200 yen).

Transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to Tokyo Station (5 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Take the Tokyo Monorail from Hamamatsucho Station to Haneda Airport (20 minutes, 490 yen).

Based on your itinerary, the 7-day Japan Rail Pass (29,110 yen for adults) would be the most cost-effective option. This pass covers all the JR trains you will be taking except for the Tokyo Monorail and the Fujikyu Railway. Alternatively, you can consider the 14-day Japan Rail Pass (46,390 yen for adults) if you plan to travel more extensively in Japan before or after this itinerary.

Europelover2014 · Accepted Answer

LOL!

I am not going to parse every line of ChatGPT's answer, but at a quick once over, it looks good to me! Scary??

I had a lot of fun with ChatGPT as I was preparing for my trip. I had listened to a lot of Japan history podcasts while exercising during Covid non-travel periods and wanted to refresh my memory and have a high level outline of the various eras of Japanese history in my head as I toured. Chat was good for providing that. It was helpful also for getting quick info on Kyoto's various temples and their histories.

It will be interesting to watch AI development over the next few years. Thanks for the post!

JapanCustomTours · Answer

Two obvious errors - the price of the pass is wrong (out of date), and ChatGPT can't count as the 7-day pass is too short. Third error, JR pass works on the monorail.

Travel times are also wrong. Otsuki to Kyoto is around four hours, not two hours unless that chat-bot has found some completely different route like the non-existent maglev.

Given the extensive information provided in the request, the information you got back isn't really that great.

>>>What are your thoughts on it's suggestion? Is the plan sensible from an order and travel recommendation perspective?<<< You gave it the plan, it gave you the plan back. It did not make any suggestions for re-ordering or improvements that a critical assessment would have done like altering the Kawaguchiko or Nikko stops.

Shibuyakko · Answer

It has so many errors. If you follow it, you'll be lost in Japan forever🤣🤣🤣

Selsy · Answer

It also didn't give you the most efficient and direct option for getting from Asakusa to Haneda.

John O · Answer

Take the Yamanote line from Osaka to Tokyo 3 hours? Yeah. Perfect.

Slalomer_in_the_alps · Answer

>>Day 12:

Take the JR Osaka Loop Line from Osaka Station to Tennoji Station (10 minutes, covered by the JR Pass).

Transfer to the JR Yamanote Line to Tokyo Station (3 hours, covered by the JR Pass).<<

Sounds great if true. JR (Tokyo) Yamanote Line doesn't extend to JR Tennoji. ChatGPT, thought great in its own right (Google feels threatened, so I hear), probably doesn't react to/disregards Tokaido Shinkansen and its network, methinks. I may be wrong, but if you feed your data in Japanese in Japanese-version ChatGPT, then you'll get better results...

saaandeep · Answer

Brilliant, thanks all for clearing up the errors!

Seems like the free research preview is only valid up to 2021, however even still it's made some pretty obvious mistakes in regards to pass coverage.

On that train of thought (no pun intended), with my journey as below

- Day 0: land in Tokyo Haneda at 12pm, check into hotel Gracery in Shinjuku

- day 1-3 : explore Tokyo

- day 4: travel to and stay overnight in Kawaguchiko

- day 5: travel to Kyoto and check into hotel

- day 6-8: explore Kyoto

- day 9: Travel to Osaka, stopping in Nara en route.

- day 10: explore Osaka

- day 11: visit universal studios Japan

- day 12: travel to Asakusa and check into hotel

- day 13: visit Nikko for a day trip

- day 14: check out of Tokyo and go to the airport Tokyo Haneda

Can somebody please help me work out where I should use a 7 day pass please?

When I use online calculators, I cant seem to find details of JR coverage between Tokyo and Kawaguchiko, or any costs covering monorails.

Would appreciate any advice as I'm tearing my hair out planning this route!

Thank you.

JapanCustomTours · Answer

>>>Can somebody please help me work out where I should use a 7 day pass please?<<<

The 7-day pass doesn't work for that schedule - get individual tickets and pre-paid IC card. Your two long trips (probably Mishima to Kyoto on day 5 and Kyoto to Tokyo on day 12) are across a span of eight days, and even if you were returning on day 7, the pass wouldn't save you much (if anything).

Kyoto is not a place where JR is dominant and you have lots of short/cheap local trains.

Nikko is better done via Tobu (cheaper) than JR (usually same travel times) so JR pass wouldn't help

Fearless802748 · Answer

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