Kyushu Expressway Pass (KEP) vs NEXCO tolls (2026)

KEP is NEXCO West’s Kyushu Expressway Pass — not a Kanto pass, and not a nationwide pass. Unlimited driving on the listed Kyushu NEXCO sections for 2–10 consecutive days, sold with a designated foreigner rental and ETC card.

JapanTolls is an independent estimator. It is not NEXCO East, Central, or West, and it does not sell expressway passes. Confirm live prices, covered interchanges, and rental desks on the operator page before you book.

Eligibility and how you buy it

Non-Japanese passports, or Japanese citizens with a foreign permanent-residence permit, plus a licence that is valid in Japan.
Passport or PR proof, and the licence, at the designated rental desk. Reserve the pass with the car.
English user agreement: vehicles are limited to standard-size ETC cars from designated branches. The public price table has no kei column.
Product window in that agreement: 1 September 2016 through 2026-09-30. JapanTolls does not sell KEP.

Days

2 to 10 consecutive days. The agreement also lists last application dates that sit a few days before 30 September 2026 depending on course length (the 10-day course through 21 September 2026). Confirm the operator page when you book.

Official pass price

Official price table (NEXCO West; user agreement revised 2025-03-23; checked 2026-08-19. JNTO table updated 2026-01-22).

NEXCO West — Kyushu Expressway Pass

Consecutive days	Standard-size vehicle
2 days	¥6,200
3 days	¥8,400
4 days	¥10,600
5 days	¥12,800
6 days	¥15,000
7 days	¥17,200
8 days	¥19,400
9 days	¥21,600
10 days	¥23,800

Rental-car fees are not included.
The official English price table is a single column for standard-size vehicles. It does not publish a separate kei price.
The English user agreement limits KEP to standard-size ETC vehicles from designated desks, and sets the product window as 1 September 2016 through 2026-09-30.

Coverage, in words

No map image. The English agreement’s table is NEXCO West Kyushu roads, including the Kyushu Expressway from Moji IC to Kagoshima IC, plus listed sections of the Miyazaki, Nagasaki, Oita, Higashi-Kyushu, Kyushu-Chuo, Nishi-Kyushu, Minami-Kyushu expressways and named connectors (Shiida, Usa-Beppu, Hayato, Hiji Bypass, Nagasaki Bypass, and others).

City expressways are not included. Toll roads not operated by NEXCO West are not included. Entering and leaving entirely outside the covered ICs voids KEP for that journey. The Kanmon crossing and Fukuoka / Kitakyushu urban expressways are the usual tourist traps next to this map.

When it beats pay-as-you-go

Several days crossing Kyushu on those listed NEXCO roads — Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Oita, Nagasaki, Miyazaki — so multiple IC-to-IC bills exceed the flat fee.
A Fukuoka–Kagoshima run plus more covered hops in the same 2–10 days. Our ordinary Fukuoka–Kagoshima estimate (¥6,330) is already close to the 2-day official price (¥6,200).
Fukuoka–Kumamoto alone. Our ordinary estimate is ¥2,930, which is below the 2-day official KEP price of ¥6,200.
A Kanto itinerary. KEP does not mean Kanto. Tokyo–Osaka and Tokyo–Hakone are unrelated corridors.
Fukuoka urban expressway, Kitakyushu urban expressway, or other non-NEXCO West tolls. NEXCO West’s page also notes some rental brands as not currently accepting — check that list.

Worked example (our routes + official pass price)

Estimate: JapanTolls ordinary Fukuoka–Kagoshima ¥6,330 versus official KEP 2-day ¥6,200 (NEXCO West table, standard-size). Those two numbers are in the same band; one long hop can nearly match the shortest pass, and extra covered days are where KEP pulls ahead.

Fukuoka–Kumamoto ordinary ¥2,930 versus the same ¥6,200 2-day pass: pay-as-you-go wins for that short hop. Both pairs are existing Kyushu Expressway estimates in our dataset, not invented itineraries.