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It baffles me that the country famous for high speed trains never bothered to build one between the city where 1/4 of its people live and the airport that handl
by deciplex 12y ago
It baffles me that the country famous for high speed trains never bothered to build one between the city where 1/4 of its people live and the airport that handles most of its international flights (and used to handle all of them). Skyliner is pretty fast but it's not a Shinkansen, and Narita Express is basically just an ordinary train.
Of course, it's also baffling that they built the airport so far away in the first place, but that's another story.
- masklinn 12y ago> Of course, it's also baffling that they built the airport so far away in the first place, but that's another story. The Kanto plain suffers from a dearth of available flat land, even more so enough available flat land to build a major international airport (this being worsened by Japan's weak eminent domain and history of resistance to relocation, half a century later there are still families living on the site and farming in the middle of the runways: http://www.japansubculture.com/the-phantoms-of-narita-airport-the-forgotten-warriors-in-fading-green-fields/ http://www.japansubculture.com/the-phantoms-of-narita-airpor...)