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Old Jan 8, 2008 | 12:49 am
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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).
I think the Hidaki is slower because it makes a stop in Rappungi.
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