Hokuriku Shinkansen

Hokuriku Shinkansen

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. President Tetsuro Tomita (R) and West Japan Railway Co. executive Makoto Shibata hold a signboard showing the four names for the bullet trains that will run on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2013. The Hokuriku Shinkansen Line is scheduled to start service between Tokyo and Kanazawa via Nagano in the spring of 2015.

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