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apskip:
Chateau,

I don't know how to fit that in except for transport to Narita Airport to get an earlier flight. The other possibility is a train trip to Hiroshima so that the picture of the airport bus tagged by somebody as being only from Hiroshima Airport is valid.

Just a simple bus trip from Kansai airport into downtown Osaka costs 1900 yen and runs every 20 to 30 minutes except between midnight and 630am.

The distance from Osaka to Hiroshima is 175 miles each way, so 350 miles would be burned by using trains or buses or combinations for that.

theschnauzers:
I'm just going to wait and see if my suggestion some months ago that teams might use airports in western Japan (Hiroshima, Osaka, etc.) pans out after being castigated about suggesting this then.

The logic of it was always that such use of those airports would limit the flights teams could take and to manipulate the teams' arrival so Phil could get ahead of them for both the Japan leg and for the final leg in Hawaii. It wouldn't surprise me if Phil was able to leave for Osaka the afternoon or evening of the day of check-in of the second Kochi leg.

apskip:
THE SCHNAUZERS,

I was one of those who displayed a low-probability attitude toward your "western Japan and Hiroshima" hypothesis. It can be done, but it's not pretty.

The best flight combination leaves Kochi in the evening and arrives in Hiroshima (HIJ) at just under 21 hours elapsed time, slightly more than my Kochi to Osaka combination. Here are the flights:

MU2734 COK MAA 1950 2125
MH182  MAA  KUL  0001+1 0610+1
PW388 KUL PVG 0920+1 1417+1

However, how many Amazing Race teams board flights immediately after their pit stop at 8pm?

I have other combinations, but all appear to be at least 24 hours in total transit time.

I don't see flying into Hiroshima, but it's definitely not impossible.

apskip:
Flying to Hiroshima appears more probable now. I would not do a round-trip on the bullet train from Osaka to Hiroshima and back UNLESS there were bad flight connections into Hiroshima. the one above is OK except for leaving in the evening. I have another here that also leaves in the evening but gets there 4 hours elapsed time quicker than any of the best Cochin to Osaka flights I have found: 

COK SIN SQ267 2345 0742+1
SIN ICN  SQ16   0932+1 1647+1
ICN HIJ  OZ162 1836+1 1958+1

However, due to the evening departures, I believe that the flight combination starting in Cochin will be the one actually used because it departs and arrives in the morning and the one above does neither and earlier one in my prior post in this thread depart in the evening.

I would like to give kudos to jacobsk68 who hypothesized that Singapore would be a connection on the route. That will be true if teams fly this route through Singapore and Seoul to get to Hiroshima.   

apskip:
If one concludes that teams are likely to get from Shin-Osaka to Hiroshima by bullet train, then the Japan National Railways schedule is rather useful. Most bullet train trips on that route take slightly less than 90 minutes. Here are some representative ones throughout the day:

Dep. Shin-Osaka  Arr. Hiroshima

         1009                 1133
         1029                 1155 
         1059                 1233
         1209                 1338
         1218                 1342
         1245                 1401
         1501                 1638
         1522                 1654
         1545                 1705

There are others for earlier, later and in between these times.

I have to admit that the photo of the Hiroshima airport bus is troubling because that does not fit the model I have gravitated to.
 

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