I helped some people the other day that booked their tickets through Klook. Then they just scanned a QR code at the designated shinkansen ticket machines and printed them out. In general, I am not a fan of using third parties, and this was just for 2 people, but you might want to look into them. Normally, I would dig into this further, but I…

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I guess it depends on your tolerance of extra people!

My personal feeling is that it won’t be as big as they expect/say as everything is behind schedule and a lot of people here are not really interested.

I think your biggest challenge will be getting a hotel as accessible rooms are already hard to get, but still should be possible.

Hmmmm getting the same message…

@cpnheather any thoughts? I know you frequently travel there.

There are definitely accessible seats, so in the worst case scenario you could book in advance at the Midori no Madoguchi booking counter found at most larger JR stations.