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You can travel surprisingly quickly between Toyohashi and Himeji without using the Shinkansen, thanks to the power of the Shin-kaisoku and other trains, but it is also possible to travel this section using only private railways, especially the Meitetsu Rapid Express, which only stops at Higashi-Okazaki and Chiryu between Meiho and Nagoya, and the Limited Express Hitotori, which only stops at Tsu and Yamato-Yagi between Meihan and Nagoya. Although they are inferior to the Shinkansen in terms of speed, they compete with the Shinkansen in terms of price and livability. However, if your destination is Himeji, the direct express trains that cross the Hanshin Namba Line and Sanyo Electric Railway have many stops and you also have to transfer at Namba and Amagasaki, so it takes a surprisingly long time to get west of Osaka Namba. So, even if you use the "Hinotori" which boasts the fastest scheduled speed of any private railway, or a direct express train with a red curtain, you don't have to pay a single yen in express fare, so wouldn't it be faster to take the JR Special Rapid + New Rapid? To test this, we pitted two routes, one from Toyohashi to Maibara Station on the JR Special Rapid, changing to a New Rapid and heading to Himeji, and one from Toyohashi to Meitetsu Nagoya Station on the Meitetsu Rapid Express, changing to the Hitotori at Kintetsu Nagoya Station, changing to the Hanshin Namba Line Rapid Express at Osaka-Namba Station, and changing to the direct express at Amagasaki, all at 6x speed and with simultaneous playback on two screens. [Sannomiya → Nagoya Edition] • [Sannomiya → Nagoya] A thorough test with simultaneous playback on two screens! "New rapid service" VS "Hanshin + Limited Express Hi..." Two-screen simultaneous high-speed playback series: • [Tennoji → Yoshinoguchi] A thorough investigation with simultaneous two-screen playback! "Kintetsu Express" VS "JR Yamato... ____________________________________ BGM: • Runners High @ Free BGM DOVA-SYNDROME O... Sub-channel: / @Kurohand Channel Backlighting Twitter: / shirohand_tyhs #Meitetsu #Kintetsu #Hanshin #New rapid service