I voted for "when the transportation breaks down"... AND it looks like Kogasa had yet to realize she's a Yuki-Onna who can't escape the snowstorm she's called on Hokkaido.

Gotta love live translations.

Reader-added tags include "If it isn't one thing, it's 100 others", "Standard trope", and "Just as everyone expected".

Today's survey was almost canceled owing to bad weather:

What would trouble you on a trip?
• The shop I'd planned to visit is closed
• Transportation facilities aren't running
• Illness or accident
• Budget deficit
• My work's followed me!

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Helepolis said:

I am wondering if in the future somewhere they will complete the JR Shinkansen line between Hokkaido and mainland. That would save a lot of trouble with travelling no? Or would that be futile during blizzard/snow storm?

I would think they'd have to run a tunnel or something - and that's not something I'd want to be in during an earthquake. A bridge would almost be as bad.

Jarlath said:

I would think they'd have to run a tunnel or something -

Actually, they already constructed a tunnel 28 years ago: Seikan Tunnel.

Helepolis said:

I am wondering if in the future somewhere they will complete the JR Shinkansen line between Hokkaido and mainland.

Actually, they already started operating the Shinkansen between them just a few weeks ago: Hokkaido Shinkansen.

Brightlight said:

Actually, they already constructed a tunnel 28 years ago: Seikan Tunnel.

Actually, they already started operating the Shinkansen between them just a few weeks ago: Hokkaido Shinkansen.

Guess that this story happens before the opening of that Shinkansen line? Or that they stopped running the trains too?

Guess that this story happens before the opening of that Shinkansen line? Or that they stopped running the trains too?

Kamui 4 was this February; the extension opened a month later. Also, it's as far as Hakodate but not yet all the way to Sapporo (where the event was) - until 2030 or so, flying Sapporo↔Tokyo is usually still faster, unless you have Kogasa Luck™.

zaribet said:

Kamui 4 was this February; the extension opened a month later. Also, it's as far as Hakodate but not yet all the way to Sapporo (where the event was) - until 2030 or so, flying Sapporo↔Tokyo is usually still faster, unless you have Kogasa Luck™.

I think, with Kogasa Luck, taking the train was the best idea she never thought of. But then the story would be about a miraculously stopped train....