E5 and H5.

Someone bought a Kagoshima Chuo-Shin Hakodate Hokuto trip. Requires transfer at Hakata and Tokyo. 2150km of train rides. The basic ticket is about $230. Never mind the Shinkansen fare. Seems the printer also ran out of space on the basic ticket to note the journey type. They penned the Shinkansen - Shin Hakodate Hokuto [?] part.

Tributes to the fallen.

>>132493 -- That someone wasn't me. (mumblegrumble...) To be expected, though, that folk would want the longest possible ride. Wonder if the rider will repeat the feat for each Hokkaido station added.

The Rocketeers go to Hokkaido to see both trains and anime stars.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/03/29/the-shinkansen-now-goes-all-the-way-to-hokkaido-and-heres-its-newest-northernmost-station/

A Shinkansen passes a freight train, blurring the previously clear cut separation.

Maybe if Japan's economy wasn't at the bottom of a garbage heap, they would've dared to construct a second tunnel.

>>132559 And leave one of them basically empty save a handful of trains per day? Would've been wasteful to say the least.

Fifty freights and twenty-six passenger trains a day is hardly a handful of either for a nearly fifty-four kilometre long undersea tunnel in a high-risk area.

>>132561
No way that would justify the absurd cost though. "Let's duplicate this tunnel, for untold billions, just in case..." Better spent, if anything, on getting that Sakhalin link in for direct containers from Eurasia.

That one is even less likely to happen, not just to gauge break but more so due to strained and frayed relations.

>>132561
Japanese freight trains are pretty short though, that 50 trains is probably the equivalent of one of two 'Murican freights.

>>132576 -- IIRC, their freights are often 20-40 cars long. Guess the upper limit depends on block length, since (to my best knowledge) there is no dark territory anywhere in Japan.

Well... I think there are several branch lines that use a staff or another token, but a US freight train would be far too long to fit on some of those. Yes, I'm looking at you, Kishū.