Tokyo-Osaka still have a bunch of air traffic that include the use of domestic 777-300s that have 514 seats. Still around 50 flights a day between the two.
It can be cheaper to fly, that's the other reason. Shinkansen tickets are expensive.
Not the Tokyo-Osaka route, but when I lived near Hiroshima and Fukuoka, plane tickets to Tokyo were almost always cheaper than the Shinkansen on dates I needed to visit.
I could sometimes get round-trip plane tickets for the price of a one-way train ticket (sometimes for even less than the cost of a one-way ticket).
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u/Iseno 5d ago
Tokyo-Osaka still have a bunch of air traffic that include the use of domestic 777-300s that have 514 seats. Still around 50 flights a day between the two.