Getting there
Take the Tokaido Shinkansenfrom Osaka or Tokyo
- Hikari [Tokyo - Shinagawa - Shin-Yokohama - Odawara - Atami - Mishima - Shizuoka - Hamamatsu - Toyohashi - Nagoya - Gifu-Hashima - Maibara - Kyoto - Shin-Osaka]
- Kodama [Tokyo - Shinagawa - Shin-Yokohama - Odawara - Atami - Mishima - Shin-Fuji - Shizuoka - Kakegawa - Hamamatsu - Toyohashi - Mikawa-Anjo - Nagoya - Gifu-Hashima - Maibara - Kyoto - Shin-Osaka]
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One of Japans busiest port cities but it's a quiet place to stop if you want to break up a long trip
One of the many stops that get ignored on the main shinkansen lines .
There are enough small local attractions to slow things down a bit .