Declan Murphy wrote:
> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
> 
>>
>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Prophet of the Way wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> JR Central will run special shuttle trains to the Bampaku-Yakusa 
>>>>>> Expo Station on
>>>>>> the Aichi Kanjou Railroad ("Aikan", "Aichi Loop").  Get on this 
>>>>>> train at Nagoya
>>>>>> if you want a seat.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Or get on at Okazaki, where you are guaranteed a seat.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> err, the Aikan has a Nagoya Station? The transfer from the 
>>>> Shinkansen would be a real bitch.
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess they will either run a train on the Chuo line as far as 
>>> Kouzouji, and then somehow squeeze the bugger onto the Aikan, or just 
>>> herd everybody off the Chuo train onto an Aikan train with some kind 
>>> of combined ticket. Still easier to go from Okazaki.
>>>
>>> As I'm an Aichi motorhead (and have an expo pass), I'm just going to 
>>> drive.
>>
>>
>> "motorhead" is redundant. "I live in Aichi" is enough to say 1) you 
>> have a car 2) you will drive.
> 
> 
> I think there are a few luddites in inner Nagoya who continue to resist. 
> They will be crushed. Preferably by motor vehicles. Or they will learn 
> to love to drive, and learn to love to drive only Japanese cars. 
> Preferably locally built ones.
> 
> Driving back from the airport I was speaking with Yamasa's housing 
> officer. She owns a Beetle. I told her I was shocked. She said that she 
> was more shocked, as the Beetle was found to have a hole in it due to 
> the shoddy workmanship of whatever fly-by-night operation manufactured 
> the bloody thing. "I should have bought a Japanese car..."
> 
> 

BTW not only do I get to go to an Aichi wedding soon, it's a 
Mikawa wedding, 50,000yen gift money.