Originally Posted by
ND76
The only drawback to the JR pass is that their highest speed shinkansen train on the Tokyo-Nagoya-Kyoto-Osaka-Hiroshima line, the Nozomi, is excluded. The next highest speed train, the Hidaki, is about 30 minutes slower on the Tokyo-Kyoto run (2:45 for 296 miles on the Hidaki, 2:15 on the Nozomi).
Hidaki ,I wouldn't know......unless they changed the name of trains on the Sanyo/Tokaido lines
I suspect you meant "Hikari" or it's b*stard child "Hikari Railstar"!