Highspeed rail is B$it

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kyoto - tokyo by air:
Jetstar
1h 25m
Nonstop
from $38

You're both cherry-picking and comparing apples to oranges there: fruity [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can take the 新幹線 to all sorts of places a plane won't take you, and it's awesome. The Japanese are leading the world in mass transit, plus their whole society is organized around it: it's hard to appreciate trains here when you don't get to see how awesome they are for daily life in places like Japan.

But honestly, otherwise, this is a rare thread where I mostly agree with you Jib: I live in California, and the whole the high-speed rail scheme was a scam from the beginning.