hokuriku-shinkansen-extension-ruling-party-panel-favors-katsuragawa-route
# Hokuriku Shinkansen# rail development
Key Points
- A ruling-party panel deemed the Katsuragawa route preferable for the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension
Analysis
A ruling-party panel favored the 'Katsuragawa route' for the Hokuriku Shinkansen's extension toward Osaka. Route finalization would reprice development along western Kyoto and northern Osaka — the one-kilometer-radius land story around new shinkansen stations has never missed in Japan.