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Hakodate Station to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto
Hello,
I am an eletric power wheelchair user (Permobil M3 corpus) and I will stay in Hakodate this summer. We need to use the local Hakodate train to go from Hakodate Station to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto station to take the Shinkansen for Tokyo.
I was told the the train from Hakodate to Shin-Hakodate may have a step to get in. I took a lot of trains…
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You shouldn’t have a problem with boarding the train. Some of the rural trains have a step up inside the train but the urban ones have an almost flat floor level with the platform. If you make yourself known to the station staff in Hakodate (get there at least 20 minutes before the train departs they will get you on board and also tell the…
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I have taken a few rural trains like in Aomori and it should be fine, especially as Shin-Hakodate to Hakodate would be common for anyone going to Hakone from Tokyo by train.
They will still be a ramp, just a longer one. I’ve use a 2m one before.
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