Originally Posted by
jib71
If you want to avoid overnighting somewhere on the way, then I think 3 is the best of those options. 1hr 50mins should easily be a legal connection within Terminal 2 (I assume you will arrive with AA at T2?).
On arrival at ITM, you can take a cab or bus (25 mins) to Shin Osaka Station. And from there it's a 90 minute Nozomi train ride to Hiroshima.
Last departure from Shin Osaka to Hiroshima is 10.29pm, so you have some room in that plan for delays.
Just for your reference --- A 7.57pm Nozomi Shinkansen departure from Shinagawa (which you could easily connect to) would get you to Hiroshima at 11.56pm. That would be a rather less complex journey (one train change). It would get you to Hiroshima slightly later than the flight + train plan (assuming the flights are all on time). And it would be slightly more expensive (but the difference might be insignificant if you take a cab from ITM to Shin Osaka).
Yes, I'm arriving on AA in T2.
The
Japan Rail Search has an entry for "Osaka Airport" -- is this the same as ITM?
Your alternative suggestion, using Shinagawa, if I understand it, would be to land in NRT, get to Shinagawa, and then take the Shinkansen to Hiroshima? The Japan Rail search site makes that look exceedingly difficult, suggesting I'm better off flying to Osaka, as otherwise I'd have to change 4-7 times to get from Narita to Shinagawa. Since the AA flight is scheduled to land at 4:40 PM, I used a 6 PM departure time from Narita in the search. Probably I'm not searching correctly.