John C Klensin wrote: > Hiroshima is going to be at least as "interesting": while the > flights from Narita to the US seem to leave late afternoon, one > has to transit from Hiroshima to Narita, either by air (the only > departure I can find is at 0755) or train, again, killing most > of the day. Flights from Narita to Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and > London (my small, not-random, sample) leave mid-day, with the > same connection issues, i.e., "meet Friday" means "depart > Saturday and arrive Saturday afternoon at best".
While I won't observe to much about the schedule in relation to this I will say: As a purely practical matter the Hikari Shinkansen on the Sanyo line goes from Hiroshima to Osaka in about 90 minutes if I recall, Tokyo if you want to go that far, is around 2.5 hours from Osaka with NRT being about 40 minutes from Tokyo stations... however getting to Tokyo is not the fastest way to leave or enter to country headed to hiroshima. The Kansai airport KIX is directly accessible from the US as well as well as many well connected and some not so well connected European cities and it's about 20-30 minutes from shin-Osaka. Given that flights are frequently late but the highspeed rail system almost never is. I wouldn't bother prepurchasing tickets or padding interaries, rather I'd just show up and purchase tickets on the fastest train going in the correct direction. hiroshima shin-osaka non-reserved is around 4000 yen. by the time you link together the three or so mass transit options required to get there it should be order of $60-70 each way unless the dollar drops even further. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
