Central Japan International Airport access rail timetable changes

Nagoya Railroad (or "Meitetsu") will revise its timetables on March
29th. This company operates trains from Nagoya and surrounding cities
to Central Japan International Airport ("Centrair"
http://www.centrair.jp/en/index.html).

Some features:

* Airport access trains that currently start or terminate at
Kanayama will come to Nagoya. 10 runs each direction.

Some Kanayama - Centrair runs will remain.

Kanayama is about two miles southeast of Nagoya. Like Nippori in Tokyo,
it is a smaller station and a friendlier transfer point for JR local and
rapid trains.

* Four additional airport access trains to and from satellite cities
west of Nagoya: Gifu, Ichinomiya, Unuma and Inuyama

* Cars will be added to airport access trains. More seats and more
luggage space. A new platform will start operation in the Centrair
Station. On some trains, travel time between Nagoya and the Centrair
Station will decrease by a few minutes (limited express and express).

- Still no direct service from Centrair to Toyota City.


The new timetable is available he
http://www.meitetsu.jp/ (Japanese and English)

Details of the new timetable in Japanese:
http://www.meitetsu.jp/news/pdf/060223_b.pdf

This railway has some bottlenecks in its infrastructure. Delays are
rather frequent compared to trains elsewhere in Japan.

Prophet of the Way wrote:
Nagoya Railroad (or "Meitetsu") will revise its timetables on March
29th.

Sorry, April 29th 2006.

Prophet of the Way wrote:
* Airport access trains that currently start or terminate at
Kanayama will come to Nagoya. 10 runs each direction.

This isn't to provide more airport services, but to reduce network
congestion.

- Still no direct service from Centrair to Toyota City.

It isn't possible for Meitetsu trains from eastern Aichi to get to the
Chita line - the trackwork infrastructure doesn't exist yet. The new
Isewangan expressway (3 lanes each way, all elevated) makes it very
easy to drive from Toyota, Okazaki, Toyohashi etc to the airport via
Obu.

This railway has some bottlenecks in its infrastructure. Delays are
rather frequent compared to trains elsewhere in Japan.

Better off driving or taking the limousine bus. This is what the inside
an airport express train looks like.
http://www.declan.tv/images/meitetsu...rt_express.jpg

The Meitetsu lines, at least in eastern Aichi, should be dug up and
replaced with either light rail, bus/truck ways or dedicated ETC only
toll roads. There are too many level crossings disrupting road traffic,
and Meitetsu is essentially a radial system feeding out of the
Nagoya/Kanayama hub. Unlike JR it carries no freight, and a very small
proportion of the total number of commuters. A total waste of space.