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Hokkaido, the 21st largest island in the world, is known for its vastness. Hokkaido is so vast that it is extremely difficult to get to its northernmost point, Wakkanai. It is so far away that even if you start from Shin-Aomori Station, the starting point of the Hokkaido Shinkansen, you will have to take a conventional express train from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, which will take an unimaginable amount of time. If that's the case, then perhaps it might be possible to travel from Shin-Aomori to Kagoshima-Chuo on the Tohoku Shinkansen, Tokaido Shinkansen, and Sanyo Shinkansen, across the world's 7th largest island, Honshu, and then use the Kyushu Shinkansen to travel across the world's 37th largest island, Kyushu, and get from Shin-Aomori to Kagoshima-Chuo, faster than it would take to get from Shin-Aomori to Wakkanai... This video is just too epic, but I tried to simulate the simultaneous departure of the Hayabusa Shinkansen bound for Tokyo and the Hayate bound for Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, and then transferring from the Hokuto at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, to the Lilac at Sapporo Station, and then the Sarobetsu at Asahikawa Station, to see if a Nozomi at Tokyo Station, which was transferred from the Hayabusa, and then the Sakura at Hakata Station, could reach Kagoshima-Chuo Station, in the time it takes for the Hokuto to arrive at Wakkanai, the northernmost station in Japan, to arrive at Wakkanai Station, by transferring from the Nozomi at Tokyo Station, and then the Sakura at Hakata Station. I tried playing the video uncut at 7x speed and simultaneously on two screens to verify this. Tickets used Towards Wakkanai: Ticket from Shin-Yatsushiro to Wakkanai via the Joban Line (with disembarking at Shin-Aomori along the way) + various fixed-price express tickets Towards Kagoshima: Ticket from Shin-Aomori to Tokyo Express ticket (Higashi-Yu) + EX Hayatoku 7 Tokyo-Hakata (Green Program applied) + JR Kyushu stock preferential (stamped on board) + Kyushu Shinkansen e-Express ticket ____________________________________________________________ Two-screen simultaneous high-speed playback series: • [Nagoya → Gifu] Thorough verification with two-screen simultaneous playback! The theory that JR local trains are faster than Meitetsu limited express trains BGM: • Runners High @ Free BGM DOVA-SYNDROME O... Sub-channel: / @Kurohand Channel Backlighting Twitter: / shirohand_tyhs (Reason for thinking about doing this: Wanting a reason to go to Wakkanai after a long time) #Wakkanai #JRHokkaido #Bullet train