>>1988532I suspect JR Central either faces higher costs that way, don't want to tunnel under the mountain, or otherwise they would have done it already. Conversely, if Shizuoka's price of admission is high enough, JR Central will rationally go around the pref. instead.
>>1988932I watched a tetsubozu video on this. What exactly is the point? Once the Hokkaido Shinkansen goes to Sapporo, why would they want to drive into Hakodate station instead of Hakodate-Hokuto? The very few trains that make operating stops?And if they start building in a few years, the earliest it will be done is when the rest of the line is done to Sapporo, rendering the point of the extra stop moot.
You don't see this sort of nonsense with Aomori/Shin-Aomori, this is exactly the same situation. Are they going to do this with Mororan too? What exactly did people expect given the geographic nature of a port town that only functions as a terminus on its own?