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The termini are Tokyo-Shinagawa and Nagoya, which are both existing stations and are already connected via the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train, taking 97 minutes today. Shaving that down to 40 (if all goes as planned) is nice, but not earth-shattering.

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Cutting the time by nearly 60% is definitely more than nice. You could actually have people commute daily on the 40 minute ride, the 97 minute ride not so much.

Large scale commuting adoption seems unlikely. Usually JR sells commuter passes at approximately 50% of price of daily roundtrips between destinations, for Nagoya-Tokyo on current shinkansen this will come to ~$2.5k/mo. No way this is going to be approved by companies even for middle management positions.

Thanks for that info. Would make sense to go home though at that point instead of staying the night in a hotel if there's a series of business meetings.

More people, more traffic through the stations. That sort of speed has to increase daily capacity/throughput. If that capacity is used, they will do OK.

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