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Originally Posted by noodle
damn. 12+ hours... I see, thanks for that, i didn't realise it was THAT long! i thought maybe, max would have been 8 hours or something (ie, only double the time of a bullet train)!!!
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If it had just gone non-stop, it probably would have been about 8 hours or less. But local trains stop at every station, and changing trains 6 times meant waiting for the next one to arrive, which took a while sometimes. I ended up getting the last train running to Wakayama on the Nankai Koya line that night, or else I'd have been stuck in Osaka!
Also, I was traveling with a ju-hachi kippu, and I didn't know if it covered the night bus to Osaka. And I got to see a lot of nice scenery and talk to people on the long slow trip, which was nice. I didn't mind it, it's not like I was only there for a short vacation and had to get there as fast as possible and not waste a day. I was living there for 2 years, and that was the leisurely journey home after a 9 day trip through eastern Japan. That was by far the cheapest way home, at just 2,200 yen...