hello everyone! i have a question to ask on train routes using seishun 18 kippu. i am flying in march 2016.

i am planning my itinerary from osaka to fukuoka. i am using hyperdia to plan. for some reason when i tried to search for trains from yamaguchi to fukuoka, it said no results. i tried from hiroshima to fukuoka also didn't yield result.

is this normal? or does that mean i have to find other places to drop by before going to fukuoka?

ur help/advise is highly appreciated.

my current planning is like this:

osaka (after airport) > okayama (one night) > fukuyama (> 3 hours) > hiroshima (3 nights) > yamaguchi (< 5 hours) > fukuoka (2 nights) > kyoto > osaka