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Fabulous Shinkansen
Our long awaited ride on the Shinkansen, first to Nagoya, about 2 hours away from Tokyo.
The Shinkansen to Nagoya
March 15th 2009 Japan's main island, Honshu, is covered by a network of high speed trains connecting Tokyo with most of the island's major cities. These high speed bullet trains are called shinkansen, and operated by Japan Railways (JR). The Tokkaido shinkansen, which we will be using, connects Tokyo to our others visits: Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya. This line was inaugurated in 1964 as the first shinkansen lin
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