And we're off

My first improper breakfast of the trip, snatched at a convenience store between the hotel and Nagoya Station.

And it's the first long-distance train journey of the trip, four hours on a Kodama bullet train to Shin-Osaka and then the Super Hakuto limited express to Tottori.

Another first, the Kodama is completely non-reserved except first class. Like a normal train, except completely not.