I just hope you're not planning on doing this in the summer!

It seems you are right at home here on FT! Only on this kind of website can you hope to find people who find changing trains, crossing platforms, queuing to check in and queuing to clear security and queuing to board their plane as 'interesting'.

Me? I like spending a few hours with nice book, regular service from a trolley with a succession of refreshments and delicious bento delivered to my seat, looking up occasionally and seeing the change in scenery and my relaxation punctuated occasionally with a thrilling WHUMPPH! as another shinkansen hurtles past (which helps me remember the speed I'm travelling at). I like to keep my energy for 'interesting' pursuits when I arrive - not feel tired and exhausted from all the ragged and tedious demands of modern air travel. Oh yes, I also like to have access to a toilet for as long as possible and the chance to walk up and down a very long train whenever I feel like it.


As a pertinent aside, my husband has had to go on a few intra Japan plane journeys. He suspects that ANA and JAL put their worst pilots on the national flights. He used to complain of nosebleeds and headaches from sharp and uncomfortable descents - not something I've ever seen him suffer with on our European flights together, but then the terrain is different over much of Europe.


I genuinely hope you enjoy your journey! It's just not something I'd choose to do myself.