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[Breaking News]Shinkansen bullet train services suspended after incident

NAGOYA, Japan, June 19 Kyodo - JR Nagoya Station in Nagoya, central Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 19, 2026, after services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet trains were suspended following an incident in which a person entered the tracks at Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and was fatally hit. (Kyodo)

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Shinkansen bullet train services suspended after incident

JR Nagoya Station in Nagoya, central Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 19, 2026, after services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet trains were suspended following an incident in which a person entered the tracks at Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and was fatally hit.

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Shinkansen bullet train services suspended after incident

JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka, western Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 19, 2026, after services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet trains were suspended following an incident in which a person entered the tracks at Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and was fatally hit.

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Shinkansen bullet train services suspended after incident

JR Nagoya Station in Nagoya, central Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 19, 2026, after services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet trains were suspended following an incident in which a person entered the tracks at Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and was fatally hit.

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Shinkansen bullet train services suspended after incident

Passengers look at an information board at JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka, western Japan, on June 19, 2026, after services on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line bullet trains were suspended following an incident in which a person entered the tracks at Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, and was fatally hit.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Actor Hirosue arrested over alleged assault in hospital

Journalists gather near a police station in Hamamatsu in the central Japan prefecture of Shizuoka on April 8, 2025, after Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of injuring a nurse at a hospital in a neighboring city by kicking her following a car accident on the Shin-Tomei Expressway on April 7.

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Powerful typhoon hits Japan

People walk in front of JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 31, 2024, as torrential rain continued due to Typhoon Shanshan.

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Powerful typhoon in Japan

A signboard at a JR Hamamatsu station ticket gate in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, shows Tokaido bullet train services suspended between Mishima in the prefecture and Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 30, 2024, due to the approach of Typhoon Shanshan.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 9

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along the Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Tokyo-Osaka bullet train service resumes after halt

A train service information board at JR Hamamatsu Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, shows the resumption of services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines on the morning of July 23, 2024. An accident involving railway maintenance vehicles caused an all-day suspension on part of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line a day earlier, while the Sanyo Shinkansen Line was also disrupted by the accident.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 5

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 6

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 3

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 4

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident 2

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Japan: Travel Chaos Erupts After Bullet Trains Suspended Due To Maintenance Train Accident

Travel chaos erupted at railway stations across Japan on Monday, July 22 after bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were partially suspended due to a collision of maintenance vehicles on tracks. Videos posted on social media show major stations along Tokaido Shinkansen Line packed with stranded travelers.

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Shinkansen self-driving system

Screenshot from a video monitor set up in a new N700S shinkansen bullet train for the media shows a driver starting an automatic train operation system during a trial self-driving run on May 11, 2023, at JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, ahead of possible commercial use around 2028.

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N700S series bullet train

NAGOYA, Japan, June 5 Kyodo - Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train stopping at Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka.

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N700S series bullet train

NAGOYA, Japan, June 5 Kyodo - Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train departing Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, after a brief stop during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka.

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N700S series bullet train

NAGOYA, Japan, June 5 Kyodo - Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train stopping at Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka.

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Leader of Komeito in stump speech

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech at JR Hamamatsu Station in central Shizuoka Prefecture on Nov. 22, 2014, ahead of the Dec. 14 general election.

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Man once on death row returns to hometown

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (C), 78, a former professional boxer, arrives at JR Hamamatsu Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. Hakamada, sentenced to death, returned to his hometown for the first time since his release from nearly half a century of detention following a court decision to reopen a 1966 murder case.

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Hatoyama hits the stump for by-elections

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech during a stump stop near JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture. Hatoyama, who doubles as president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, visited the area to drum up support for his party prior to an upcoming House of Councillors by-election in the prefecture.

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes.

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Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services halted

HAMAMATSU, Japan - The head coach of the Nozomi No. 61 bullet train is seen damaged at JR Tokai's maintenance facility in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 25 after the train hit a man as it passed through Shizuoka Station.

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(2)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Jorge Edgar de Souza Eguti, 26, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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(1)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Mauro de Souza Eguti, 22, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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(1)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Mauro de Souza Eguti, 22, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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(2)2 Japanese-Brazilian brothers arrested for robbing gun

NAGOYA, Japan - Jorge Edgar de Souza Eguti, 26, one of two Japanese-Brazilians wanted by police on suspicion of robbing a police officer of a loaded gun, arrives at Tajimi Police Station in Gifu Prefecture, on June 5 after being arrested in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 30

30 Hamamatsu - A party of coolies warming themselves by a bonfire beside a large tree, a traveller, with a pipe in hand, looking on, and a peasant woman carrying a child on her back, approaching from the right. Bare, flat rice-fields, across which stand the castle and village in the background. This plate depicts a wintry rural scene on the outskirts of Hamamatsu Station. The village and Hamamatsu Castle are visible in the distance. Hiroshige always depicted travellers and local people appropriate to the landscape and setting. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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Enshu Road

Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture is famous for making musical instruments and harmonica girls, but now motorcycle production accounts for 60% of the nation's total, and training sessions are also held at bride schools. Enshu Road, cars running, gas stations along the road, gas pumps, Shell Oil signboard, people working at a textile factory, Hamamatsu town which has flourished as an inn town and castle town since ancient times, Hamamatsu Station platform, harmonica girls, music sirens, motorcycles, buses, people working at a motorcycle factory People working at a motorcycle factory, a line of motorcycles running, a scene of a motorcycle course, a compulsory subject at a bride school, kite flying, shooting date unknown, release date: May 17, 1963.

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CORRECTED: N700S series bullet train

Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train departing Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, after a brief stop during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: N700S series bullet train

Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train stopping at Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: N700S series bullet train

Photo taken on June 5, 2018, shows a new N700s Tokaido shinkansen bullet train stopping at Mikawa-Anjo station in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, during a test run between Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Osaka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Snake found in shinkansen bullet train bound for Hiroshima

Photo shows a snake, believed to be a kind of python, that was found by a passenger on a Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train traveling from JR Tokyo Station to Hiroshima on Sept. 26, 2016. The 30-centimeter-long snake was captured by police as the train made an emergency stop at JR Hamamatsu Station. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tani makes campaign speech in Shizuoka Pref.

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan candidate and two-time Olympic judo gold medalist Ryoko Tani makes a campaign speech in front of JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 4, 2010, ahead of the July 11 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo)

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'Next-generation' Shinkansen model on display

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A new Shinkansen model, the ''next-generation'' N-700 Series, on display in a press preview at the JR Tokai Hamamatsu plant in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecutre on April 10. According to JR engineers, a key N-700 technical feature is that the train, through the use of air spring, can bend at curves so that it does not have to decelerate when passing through curving passages. The N-700 Series, which will run in the Tokaido Sanyo Shinkansen line, can speed through curves at a maximum speed of 270 kilometers per hour in the Tokaido sector and 300 kph in the Sanyo sector, they say. As a result, the N-700 Series can travel between Tokyo and the Shin-Osaka station in Osaka in 2 hours and 25 minutes, down 5 minutes, and between Tokyo and the Hakata station in Fukuoka in 4 hours and 50 minutes. (Kyodo)

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Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train services halted

HAMAMATSU, Japan - The head coach of the Nozomi No. 61 bullet train is seen damaged at JR Tokai's maintenance facility in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 25 after the train hit a man as it passed through Shizuoka Station. (Kyodo)

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Summer heat in Japan

People wearing face masks due to the coronavirus pandemic walk near JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, amid scorching summer heat on Aug. 12, 2020.

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Hatoyama hits the stump for by-elections

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama delivers a speech during a stump stop near JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture. Hatoyama, who doubles as president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, visited the area to drum up support for his party prior to an upcoming House of Councillors by-election in the prefecture. (Kyodo)