Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.erje.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Breen Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: JR Group (and Odakyu, Tokyo Metro) timetable changes March 15th 2008 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:07:16 +1100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <9b496385-3dbd-499e-b773-0581a3c50730@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TpnD/zbJPpwig/t1qCTqLA.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166975 CL wrote: > Jim Breen wrote: >>I think the カシオペア has only ever run once a day. It's the plain >>old 北斗星 I meant. I can't find revised times on that site. > > http://www.jreast.co.jp/cassiopeia/hokutosei/time.html#a3 My 2000 時刻表 showed 4 sleepers per night between Sapporo and Ueno - the Cassiopeia, which left Sapporo at 1622, and three 北斗星: the 2号 (1715), 82号 (1815) and 4号 (1925). I presume it's the latter 3 that are being reduced. That page indeed only shows one train/night. By Googling, I found an older version of the page, and there were two/night (2号 and 4号). So it seems they'd already cut back and are now going down to one/day. Quite a reduction. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学