Eventually, we landed on a Shinkansen line that could take us 138 miles from Tokyo to Nagano, a town an hour's drive from Hakuba, in under two hours. After some research, we opted for the premium ...

Smoking had already been banned on the Nagano (Hokuriku), Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines after the Health Promotion Law, which requires companies to prevent secondhand smoking ...