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| More Blue Train Sleeper's Withdrawn In Japan | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 16 2008, 08:37 AM (360 Views) | |
| limey | Mar 16 2008, 08:37 AM Post #1 |
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Yesterday (Sat 15th) was the last run for several of Japan's Blue Train overnight sleeper services. The Akatsuki - (Kyoto-Nagasaki), the Ginga (Tokyo-Osaka) & the Naha (Kyoto-Kumamoto) are the ones affected this time, although the Hokutosei (Tokyo-Sapporo), which I've used & which is immortalized in the PS1 game '19:03', reduces in frequency to 1 per day (there were previously 2 daily departures). Other sevices may be cut back later, as more folks choose to travel during the day on shinkansen, or by air. I've always enjoyed using overnight sleeper trains & I'm sad to see them getting cut back in Japan, especially after seeing services dwindle in the UK & the missed opportunity of overnight sleeper trains though the chunnel to Europe.  Link to Asahi article Link to wikepedia article Link to NHK news article (via a rather wacky google translation) |
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