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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

An electronic sign at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, notifies passengers of the temporary suspension of services in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section of the Tohoku Shinkansen line on June 17, 2025, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Bullet trains in northeastern Japan halted due to inspection

JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is crowded with passengers on June 17, 2025, after the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train service was suspended in both directions on the Tokyo-Sendai section, following a malfunction that saw a train stop between stations.

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Japan: Shinkansen Services Halted After Two Linked Cars Disconnected

Tohoku Shinkansen services were suspended for hours after two linked trains uncoupled between Furukawa and Sendai stations in Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan on Thursday, September 19. JR East halted all bullet train services between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori in Aomori Prefecture for inspection. This video shows a bullet train stopped in Osaki City, about 8 kilometers south of Furukawa station. There is no injuries reported among the some 320 people aboard.

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Bullet train cars disengage en route to Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tohoku Shinkansen Line's Hayabusa-Komachi No. 6 bullet train bound for Tokyo -- the Hayabusa portion (top L) and the Komachi portion (bottom) -- decoupled and stopped on the tracks in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, between Furukawa and Sendai stations on Sept. 19, 2024.

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Bullet train cars disengage en route to Tokyo

Photo shows the Tohoku Shinkansen Line's Hayabusa-Komachi No. 6 bullet train bound for Tokyo -- the Hayabusa portion (L) and the Komachi portion (R) -- decoupled and stopped on the tracks in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, between Furukawa and Sendai stations on Sept. 19, 2024.

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Power outage halts bullet trains in Japan

Passengers form lines in front of ticket gates at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 23, 2024, after shinkansen bullet train services were suspended between Tokyo and stations in eastern, central and northeastern Japan due to a power outage.

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Radio stations hold forum in Fukushima on post-disaster recovery

SENDAI, Japan - Representatives of temporary FM radio stations set up in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan gather for a forum in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 29, 2014, to discuss how their broadcasts can help post-disaster reconstruction.

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Tokyo-Sendai bullet train service resumed

SENDAI, Japan - A passenger looks at temporary housing units in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on April 25, 2011, from the window of a bullet train. The Tohoku Shinkansen Line service between Sendai and Fukushima stations resumed the same day for the first time since the March 11 disaster devastated a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan, linking Tokyo and Sendai, the Miyagi capital.

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Tokyo-Sendai bullet train service resumed

SENDAI, Japan - The Yamabiko No. 304 bullet train bound for Tokyo enters Sendai station in Miyagi Prefecture on the morning of April 25, 2011. East Japan Railway Co. resumed service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Fukushima stations the same day, linking Tokyo and the Miyagi capital for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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3 dead, over 180 injured after M7.4 quake hits northeastern Japan

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake off northeastern Japan late Wednesday left three people dead and more than 180 injured across 12 prefectures, and caused a high-speed shinkansen to derail. A Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train derailed between Fukushima Station and Shiroishizao Station, but all 78 passengers and crew members aboard were unharmed, according to East Japan Railway Co. JR East subsequently halted the operation of bullet trains between Nasushiobara Station and Morioka Station, and whether it can resume from next week remains unclear. The operator added that the bullet train service between Fukushima and Sendai stations running in that section is unlikely to resume within this month, pending restoration work. Shiroishizao Station is located between the two.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo-Sendai bullet train service resumed

SENDAI, Japan - A passenger looks at temporary housing units in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on April 25, 2011, from the window of a bullet train. The Tohoku Shinkansen Line service between Sendai and Fukushima stations resumed the same day for the first time since the March 11 disaster devastated a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan, linking Tokyo and Sendai, the Miyagi capital. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo-Sendai bullet train service resumed

SENDAI, Japan - The Yamabiko No. 304 bullet train bound for Tokyo enters Sendai station in Miyagi Prefecture on the morning of April 25, 2011. East Japan Railway Co. resumed service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Fukushima stations the same day, linking Tokyo and the Miyagi capital for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated a wide area of northeastern and eastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Yamagata cherries transported by shinkansen

Boxes of cherries from Yamagata Prefecture, Japan's largest producer of the fruit, are loaded onto a shinkansen bullet train at JR Sendai Station in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture for shipment to Tokyo on June 25, 2020. The cherries will be sold in stores at Tokyo and Ueno stations to help producers suffering from sales shortfalls following the coronavirus outbreak. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamagata cherries transported by shinkansen

Four hundred packets of cherries arrive at JR Sendai Station in northeastern Japan from Yamagata Prefecture, Japan's largest producer of the fruit, to be transported by a shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo on June 25, 2020. The cherries will be sold in stores at Tokyo and Ueno stations to help producers suffering from sales shortfalls following the coronavirus outbreak. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamagata cherries transported by shinkansen

Boxes of cherries from Yamagata Prefecture, Japan's largest producer of the fruit, are loaded onto a shinkansen bullet train at JR Sendai Station in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture for shipment to Tokyo on June 25, 2020. The cherries will be sold in stores at Tokyo and Ueno stations to help producers suffering from sales shortfalls following the coronavirus outbreak. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo