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Worth looking at Japan’s Toukaidou Shinkansen. The route could take a direct path from Tokyo to Nagoya to Osaka, being super fast and hitting up only the main c
by grapeskin 4y ago
Worth looking at Japan’s Toukaidou Shinkansen. The route could take a direct path from Tokyo to Nagoya to Osaka, being super fast and hitting up only the main cities.
But it doesn’t. It hits up the southern coast through Shizuoka and a bunch of small cities.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoThat's also because the shortest path is basically a tunnel. They're now building the Chuo maglev, which does take the shortest path and is currently projected at $65 billion and climbing.