Once at Yuzawa Station, the only way to correct course and get to Echigo-Yuzawa Station is to backtrack by boarding the Akita Shinkansen Line for Omiya Station in Saitama Prefecture and then ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) also announced that the Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen lines, as well as Tohoku, Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen lines in various directions may experience ...

The move marked the return of normal operations on the Tohoku, Yamagata and Akita shinkansen lines. On Friday, JR East said safety checks were completed after the incident on March 6 that affected ...

The resumption allowed a restart of direct service to Tokyo on the Akita Shinkansen line early on Friday. A Tokyo-bound Komachi train from Akita Station arrived at Morioka Station around 7:30 a.m ...

All other services to and from Tokyo on the line have been suspended. Komachi trains on the Akita Shinkansen line are in service between Morioka and Akita stations. Direct services to and from ...

This means that some direct Shinkansen services to Akita and Yamagata will be suspended. Passengers going to Akita will have to change trains at Morioka Station, and those to Yamagata at Fukushima ...

Passengers were not injured. The suspension of service also affected Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen line trains. According to East Japan Railway, metal fittings will be installed to secure coupling ...

Akita, Joetsu and Hokuriku shinkansen lines, according to JR East. The bullet train in question was carrying around 640 passengers at the time of the incident, according to the operator.

The two trains were supposed to separate later, with the Hayabusa to travelling to Shinaomori Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line and the Komachi to Akita on the Akita Shinkansen Line. Bullet train ...

The logo of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Coupled shinkansen bullet trains returned to full service in northeastern Japan on Saturday ...