A working survey of railway connections, station wayfinding and the traveller experience. The public edition shares the learning programme rather than a personal movement schedule.
Field trip
Original route schematic · not to scale · lines show the journey, not railway geography. Open larger diagram.
What this trip is for.
Learn how the rail systems connect in practice: finding the right operator, choosing a service, transferring with luggage and emerging at the useful exit.
The field work also asks what a future Fumi travel assistant would need to understand. It records human observations and compares planning advice with the real journey; no live Fumi system is needed.
Scheduled field work, not a claim of completed observations. Exact future dates, hotels and flight details are kept in the private itinerary.
Observe the arrival-to-station handover, luggage movement, ticket choices and the first local journey.
City systems
Osaka, Kyoto & Nara
Use a stable city base. Practise Metro and JR changes, compare Kyoto arrival routes and take the Nara exercise from Kyoto.
Intercity
Shin-Osaka to Atami
Study the Shinkansen gate, departure display, car position and the difference between an intercity ticket and local transport.
Station to street
Atami
Inspect the arrival, terrain and luggage effort between the station and the town. Record what a map alone fails to explain.
Large-city network
Tokyo
Practise JR, Metro and Toei transfers, the Keiyo connection, major-station exits and a controlled recovery from an unhelpful exit.
Airport finish
Haneda
Use the current airline terminal and a generous departure margin. Finish the research before the time-critical airport journey.
The useful output: a verified route note, a record of transfer effort, three human observations and a clear distinction between facts checked and questions still open.
