Shinkansen
Point taken Shinkansen is CBD to CBD, I've travelled in it many times instead of fly, comfortable = yes, fast = yes, get up walk around = yes.
However the S is not practical over longer distances or water, hence LCC.
Before LCC I paid around $400 USD one way Tokyo to Sapporo, now Ya can do for a quarter. Don't know what rates before LCC to Okinawa were but I'm tipping a lot cheaper now!
Like the old Ansett/Qantas days in AUS where it was a duopoly and flying was expensive. LCCs have changed that, wether it for the better or worse, but they have changed what is expected. Yes still costs money to put them in the sky but let's face it certainly not to the effect of the fares we used to pay.
Yes using the word belligerent was a little out of line, I should have said for those of you unlucky enough to have not been to Japan and played on the bullets!
Me thinks LCC in Japan there to stay, be it J*, Peach, etc. When you have a pool of traveling millions......
Like I said before surprised no J* India or Indo 🙈🙉🙊!