Kyoto officials pressed their case this week for routing the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line via Maizuru on the Sea of Japan Coast, a decision that would take the train through Kyoto as well as all Fukui Prefecture towns that host nuclear power plants.
About 200 local officials, including the Kyoto governor, met with Diet members in Tokyo on Wednesday evening to push for approving a final route for the Hokuriku line.
The route is already scheduled to run from Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, to Tsuruga in Fukui, home of the troubled Monju fast-breeder reactor.