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Coupled shinkansen bullet trains returned to full service in northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, the operator said, following an ...

An evolution of the 2011-era E5 Series Shinkansen, the E10 retains the iconic duckbill-nosed train design, and features ...

Japanese high-speed bullet trains, suspended over a decoupling while in motion issue, resumed service Friday. East Japan Railway Co. said full operations are expected to be in place Saturday.

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in eight days, coupled runs on the Tohoku, Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines resumed on the morning of March 14 after being halted due to a malfunction in Tokyo. An Akita ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.