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| | Transport Blog: Comment on Acela — a line of places like no other? |
 | | Tokyo, Shinagawa, Shin-Yokahama, Odawara, Atami, Mishima, Shin-fuji, Shizuoka, Kakegawa, Hamamatsu, Toyohashi, Mikawa-anjo, Nagoya, Gifu-hashima, Maibara, Kyoto, Shin-osaka, Shin-kobe, Nishi-akashi, Himeji, Aioi, Okayama, Shin-Kurashiki, Fukuyama, Shin-onomichi, Mihara, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Shin-iwakuni, Tokuyama, Shin-yamaguchi, Asa, Shin-shimonoseki, Kokura, Hakata. |
 | | By the way, "shin" simply means new, so if a station is named "Shin-Osaka" for instance, it means that an all new station was built for the Shinkansen, and therefore its station is at a different location from that for the trains running on slower and older lines. |
 | | Different trains stop at different subsets of all those stations, but there are some very major cities on that list, particularly in the first half between Tokyo and Osaka, and maybe on to Fukuyama and Hiroshima. |
| www.transportblog.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2859 (3955 words) |
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