Re: [tlug] Travel

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> Anyway, there's a tokkyu train from Sasebo to Fukuoka, and then it's
> not that long of a flight to Haneda, so don't think you're off the
> hook for nomikai that easily ;)

The tokkyu is quite nice.  I have taken it several times.  It is 
extremely easy to get to the Fukuoka Airport from Hakata, but you should 
also check out sleeper trains.  I found out about them when the dollar 
was in the toilet and payments were up to 20% under what I was used to. 
 you sleep over as far as Osaka, switch to a regular train to arrive in 
Tokyo at early morning.  From Tokyo, the sleeper train to Osaka leaves 
about midnight (giving ample time to get seriously drunk) and gets you 
to Shin-Osaka around 0700.  Overall, it costs less than flying and 
staying in a cheap hotel for one night.  I've done the sleeper train to 
Osaka, Shimonoseki, Hakata, and Sapporo.

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CL