Shinkansen has extended to Aomori

Tohoku Shinkansen went to Shin-Aomori station.
A lot of TV programs focused this incident last week.
It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori.

This extention has a lot of pros and cons
for people in Aomori, Sendai, and Tokyo.

By the way, why couldn't Shinkansen go to Aomori station,
not Shin Aomori station? This is one of the problems.
Shin Aomori station is 4.2 km away from Aomori Station.

Shinkansens have many Shin-○○ stations,
and those stations aren't very developed, and aren't very convenient,
such as Shin-Shirakawa, Shin-Yamaguchi, Shin-Osaka, Shin-Yokohama.

If those stations could go to the central station of each city,
it would be more convienient and have less problems
although it might cost more, of course.

In 2015 they say this Shinkansen will extend to Hakodate,
and in 2020 it will go to Sapporo.
In addition, Linear motor car will take us in one hour
from Tokyo to Osaka in the nearest future.

How amazing those are!!
At least I want to be alive until that time.
It is amazing!!