The meeting moved from Shinkansen car 7 to Odawara Station

On a Friday train from Shin-Osaka, a passenger joined a meeting from an S Work seat using their phone as a hotspot. Even the audio kept breaking up, so they asked to pick it up after arrival. At Odawara they sat down in a work booth in the passage between the Shinkansen and the local trains. Same mobile service, and this time they could carry on. On the 16-car Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen, car 7 is S Work, where you can take a quiet call from your seat. The S Work P upgrade costs ¥2,000 over a regular reserved seat, with a divider between seats and a tilting tray for your laptop. That passenger still does two or three hours of laptop work on train rides. The meeting was the part that needed a slot at the station.