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• Yamagata is two and a half hours from Tokyo by the bullet train, close enough for one day round trip from Tokyo. • Yamagata has two airports, the Yamagata Airport and the Shonai Airport. It takes eighty minutes to get from the Sendai International Airport, in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture, to Yamagata city. • A regular container vessel sails between the Sakata Port and Pusan, South Korea.

FROM TOKYO BY AIR • HANEDA AIRPORT→ YAMAGATA AIRPORT (55MIN.) • HANEDA AIRPORT→SHONAI AIRPORT (60MIN.) BY RAIL   • TOKYO→YAMAGATA BY YAMAGATA SHINKANSEN (ABOUT 2HRS.30MIN.AT THE SHORTEST) • TOKYO→NIGATA→TSURUOKA BY JOETSU SHNIKANSEN AND UETSU MAIN LINE (ABOUT 3HRS.40MIN.AT THE SHORTEST) FROM SENDAI (MIYAGI PREFECTURE) BY RAIL   • SENDAI→ YAMAGATA BY SENZAN LINE (60MIN.) BY BUS   • SENDAI→ YAMAGATA CITY (60MIN.) • SENDAI AIRPORT→ YAMAGATA CITY (80MIN.) FROM OSAKA BY AIR • ITAMI AIRPORT→YAMAGATA AIRPORT (1HR.20MIN.) • ITAMI AIRPORT→SHONAI AIRPORT (1HR.25MIN.) FROM NAGOYA (AICHI PREFECTURE) BY AIR • NAGOYAI AIRPORT→YAMAGATA AIRPORT (65MIN.) FROM SAPPORO (HOKKAIDO) BY AIR • CHITOSE AIRPORT→YAMAGATA AIRPORT (1HR. 10MIN.) • CHITOSE AIRPORT→SHONAI AIRPORT (60MIN.) (NOTE:SEASONAL SERVICE ONLY) YAMAGATA SHINKANSEN YAMAGATA AIRPORT SAKATA PORT