One of Japan’s busiest bullet train lines screeched to a halt Wednesday after a snake tangled itself in a power line, triggering an outage that froze the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo and ...

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Japan Railway group companies say congestion on Shinkansen bullet trains departing from Tokyo will peak on Saturday. Nozomi and other bullet trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line leaving Tokyo ...

The outage disrupted the Tokaido Shinkansen route connecting Tokyo and Osaka. The power wasn't fully restored until after 7 pm, so trains were delayed for more than an hour. The passengers were ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

Services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines were halted and delayed ... Long lines formed in front of ticket booths at jam-packed Shin-Osaka Station. Eriko Suemasa, a 26-year-old company ...

Central Japan Railway Co will replace 20 of the 68 seats in each first-class car on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line with six luxury seats. The booths will have lockable doors, and the seats can be rotated ...

Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage, the operator ...

Tokaido Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were suspended from around 17:25 local time on Wednesday. Services resumed at around 19:00 local time, operator Central Japan Railway ...

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power ...