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Conclusion: it is doable, and it does give us an extra 3 days in Japan at the cost of only taking Friday off. But it's a  fair bit of faff - we'd need to align our dates correctly with the insane Moscow-Astana timetable (actually quite easy to do, just one out of four weeks would be bad), and this changing trains in China to go faster bsns sounds fraught with Peril. But it's worth considering.
Conclusion: it is doable, and it does give us an extra 3 days in Japan at the cost of only taking Friday off. But it's a  fair bit of faff - we'd need to align our dates correctly with the insane Moscow-Astana timetable (actually quite easy to do, just one out of four weeks would be bad), and this changing trains in China to go faster bsns sounds fraught with Peril. But it's worth considering.
  I (Smith) would condone this "additional Japan" stuff. Exploring Shanghai having missed the ferry would be no hardship
  I (Smith) would condone this "additional Japan" stuff. Exploring Shanghai having missed the ferry would be no hardship
  Well, if we miss the ferry that means no japan, basically.


Note; yes this is better than catching the "Vostock", which runs saturday-saturday.
Note; yes this is better than catching the "Vostock", which runs saturday-saturday.