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view from hotel room at the coast of Lake Biwa

We got off Nozomi Shinkanksen at Kyoto and transfereded to Kosei Line to get Lake Biwa.

HP of Hotel  Lake Biwa Marriott Hotel

There are kinds of Shinkansen.  Nozomi is the fastest one between Tokyo and Hakata operated by JR Central and JR West.  Major stops from Tokyo are Shinagawa, Shin Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kokura, Hakata.  Some of them additionally stop at  Shin Kobe, Himeji, Fukuyama, Tokuyama, Shin Yamaguchi

HP of Central Japan Railway Company