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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train painted like a human face is pictured at a depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train painted like a human face is pictured at a depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train prepares to depart JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Japan's north, south tips linked by bullet train system

SAPPORO, Japan - Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station of the 149-km Hokkaido Shinkansen line is shown above in this aerial photo taken on Nov. 1, 2014, following the completion of railroading work connecting Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido with Kagoshima Prefecture on the southernmost main island of Kyushu with the bullet train system.

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Endurance test for gauge-changeable train shown to press

FUKUOKA, Japan - Part of a gauge-changeable train is shown to the press on Oct. 19, 2014, during its endurance test at a JR Kyushu Railway station in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The JR group aims to introduce the train on the Nagasaki route of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line to be opened in fiscal 2022.

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Gauge-changeable train runs for endurance test

FUKUOKA, Japan - A gauge-changeable train undergoes an endurance test near a JR Kyushu Railway station in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2014. The JR group aims to introduce the train on the Nagasaki route of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line to be opened in fiscal 2022.

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Kumamon drawn in paddy field

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a platform at Shintamana Station on the Kyushu Shinkansen line shows an image of Kumamon, a popular bear mascot character of Kumamoto Prefecture, drawn with eight rice species having different colors.

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Experimental FGT train shown to press

KUMAMOTO, Japan - An experimental Free Gauge Train that can automatically adjust for different tracks is shown to the press on April 19, 2014, at Kyushu Railway Co.'s rail yard in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan. FGT trains will be used for the planned Nagasaki route of the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line.

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Cherry flowers painted on Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A "Tsubame" (swallow) bullet train waits at JR Hakata Station on March 12, 2014, with cherry flowers painted on its sides, as the day marks the 10th anniversary of the partial start of the Kyushu Shinkansen line and the third year of the opening of its entire route from Hakata to Kagoshima.

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Taiwan shinkansen attendants in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Chiu Shu-chuan (L) is pictured during a training session aboard a bullet train between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo station of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line in southwestern Japan on Jan. 16, 2014. Chiu is one of five attendants on Taiwanese bullet trains built with Japanese technology who started on-the-job training aboard Kyushu Railway Co. shinkansen trains the same day.

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Yingluck boards Kyushu Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra walks inside a Kyushu Shinkansen train in Kumamoto on April 22, 2012. The prime minister made a roundtrip between Kumamoto and Hakata on the bullet train line.

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Yingluck boards Kyushu Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) smiles with the doll ''Kumamon,'' the mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, that she received as a gift from Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (L), at JR Kumamoto station on April 22, 2012. The prime minister made a roundtrip between Kumamoto and Hakata on the bullet train line.

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Yingluck boards Kyushu Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra smiles with the doll ''Kumamon,'' the mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture, that she received as a gift from Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima, at JR Kumamoto station on April 22, 2012. The prime minister made a roundtrip between Kumamoto and Hakata on the bullet train line.

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Kumamoto given expanded administrative powers

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area of the city of Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on March 27, 2012, with a bullet train passing on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line (front). The city was accorded expanded administrative authority as it was given the status of ''government ordinance-designated city'' on April 1, 2012.

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Tohoku Shinkansen service to fully resume

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 27, 2011, shows the Hayabusa advanced model of the shinkansen (front) in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The bullet train service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Ichinoseki, which has been suspended in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, is scheduled to resume on April 29, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori for the first time since the suspension. As the Kyushu Shinkansen Line fully opened between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo on March 12, bullet train services will link Aomori at the northern tip of the Honshu main island, and Kagoshima at the southern tip of the southwestern main island of Kyushu, for the first time.

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Serving shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - An N700 series bullet train runs on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Fukuoka Prefecture in February 2011.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A bullet train on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line passes Kumamoto Castle in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto in October 2010 during a test run.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A driver trains on a simulator for the Kyushu Shinkansen Line bullet train in October 2010 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, ahead of the March 2011 start of full operation of the line's Kagoshima route. The simulator is used to train drivers how to respond to bad weather conditions, malfunctions and other scenarios.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - High school students pose in front of a board counting down the days until the start of full operation of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line's Kagoshima route at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka on Dec. 8, 2010.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A worker inspects a Kyushu Shinkansen Line bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. rail yard in the city of Kumamoto in October 2010.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - The new N700 series bullet train heads to Kurume Station from Chikugofunagoya Station on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Fukuoka Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010.

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Actress Tanaka invites tourists to hometown Kurume

FUKUOKA, Japan - Actress Lena Tanaka poses for photos beside an advertisement board on the planned launch of JR Kurume Station on the Kyushu shinkansen bullet train line in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2010, after being designated as a special tourism ambassador by the government of her hometown.

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Countdown board for Kyushu shinkansen operation in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A board counting down the days until the start of the Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen Line is unveiled at JR Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka on Oct. 13, 2010, with mascot characters ''Kumamon'' (L) and ''Guriboo'' (R in back) of Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures attending the event.

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New Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - The new N700-series of the bullet train Sakura enters Hakata Station in Fukuoka on Oct. 4, 2010, during a trial run on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line.

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New Shinkansen train

FUKUOKA, Japan - The new N700-series of the bullet train Sakura enters Hakata Station in Fukuoka on Oct. 4, 2010, during a trial run on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line.

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Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen Line promotional campaign

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese television personality Suzanne, a native of Kumamoto Prefecture, encourages people to visit the prefecture at the launch of a campaign in Osaka on Oct. 1, 2010, to promote the Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen Line ahead of the start of operations in March next year.

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New Kyushu shinkansen bullet train

KUMAMOTO, Japan - ''Sakura,'' a new bullet train car on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line, departs JR Kumamoto Station in Kumamoto Prefecture for a test run as railway fans and spectators take pictures on Aug. 31, 2010. The test run will be continued through mid-November.

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New Kyushu shinkansen bullet train

KUMAMOTO, Japan - ''Sakura,'' a new bullet train car on the Kyushu Shinkansen Line, departs JR Kumamoto Station in Kumamoto Prefecture on Aug. 31, 2010. The test run will be continued through mid-November.

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New 800-series Shinkansen train 'runs' on street

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The new 800-series Shinkansen bullet train car is towed by a trailer from a port to a train depot in Satsumasendai in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima on the early morning of June 24. The high-speed train will make its debut on a line operated by Kyushu Railway Co. between Shinyatsushiro and Kagoshimachuo stations this summer.

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Service temporarily suspended on Kyushu, Sanyo Shinkansen lines

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Workers remove mud from the tracks of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Kagoshima on July 7. Bullet train runs on the line were temporarily suspended after the tracks in front of a tunnel were found covered by a massive mudslide caused by heavy rainfalls.

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(3)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame comes out of a tunnel March 13 as the service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. At the opening ceremony at Kagoshima-Chuo station, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said the launch of the Kyushu Shinkansen ''will activate economies along the line and attract more tourists to the region.''

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(1)Tokyo's Shinagawa opens bullet train station

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers walk into the main concourse of a new Shinkansen bullet train station which opened at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on Oct. 1 Shinagawa lies between Tokyo and Shin-Yokohama on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, which runs to Shin-Osaka and then continues to Hakata in Kyushu as the Sanyo Shinkansen Line. The station brings the number of bullet train stops in the capital to three, including Ueno, which serves northeastern Japan.

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JR Kyushu unveils bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A miniature of a JR Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train is unveiled at a press conference in Fukuoka on Dec. 17. The train is due to debut in the spring of 2004 on the new JR Kyushu Shinkansen line linking Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Nishi-Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Cracks found in window of Shinkansen bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken at JR Tokyo Station, shows cracks found Nov. 8 on the glass window of a Shinkansen bullet-train car. The cracks were found on a Tokyo-bound train from Hakata, Kyushu, while it was passing between Fukuyama and Shin-Kurashiki stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line. It was the 2nd such incident in as many days and the 5th since Oct. 21 on the same line.

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Big cement block falls in bullet-train tunnel

FUKUOKA, Japan - A big block of cement falls from the tunnel wall on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line in Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, causing a halt between Hakata and Hiroshima in the morning of Oct. 9. The block measuring about 3 meters in length, 50 centimeters in width and 20 cm in thickness was found in Kita-Kyushu Tunnel.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

Passengers step onto a Kamome bullet train at JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train is pictured before departing JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. (Pool photo)

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, to celebrate the start of commercial services of Kamome bullet trains on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, to celebrate the start of commercial services of Kamome bullet trains on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

People take pictures of a Kamome bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Kamome bullet trains at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

A Kamome bullet train is pictured at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2022, shows children inside a Kamome bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Kamome bullet trains are pictured at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.