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[Breaking News]Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

SENDAI, Japan, Oct. 10 Kyodo - Video taken Oct. 10, 2024, shows a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken Oct. 10, 2024, shows a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse (C) sees off specially painted bullet trains adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed trains will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse poses in front of a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- ahead of its departure from JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed trains will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train

Mickey Mouse (2nd from L) gestures prior to the departure of a specially painted bullet train adorned with characters from Tokyo DisneySea's Fantasy Springs area -- themed after Disney films "Frozen," "Peter Pan" and "Tangled" -- at JR Sendai Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2024. The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Hokkaido Shinkansen train on test run

AOMORI, Japan - A high-speed train of the H5 series for use on the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line comes out of the Seikan Tunnel and enters Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu island, in a trial run on Dec. 7, 2014. The line is due to start operating between Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate stations in March 2016.

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Railroading work for new bullet train line completed

HAKODATE, Japan - A railway construction vehicle runs as part of a ceremony held at a station in Kikonai on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 1, 2014, making the completion of railroading work for the 149-km Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line between Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto stations.

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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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Hokkaido Shinkansen new station named 'Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto'

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Railway Co.'s new station building is under construction in Hokuto, Hokkaido, in March 2014. JR Hokkaido announced on June 11, 2014, that the name of the new station for the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train is "Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto." The bullet train line is planned to begin operating in 2016 spring.

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Hokkaido Shinkansen readies for spring 2016 launch

The head carriage of an H5 series bullet train for the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line is shown to the press in Hokuto on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Nov. 20, 2014. The new service, set to begin in spring 2016, will enable passengers to travel from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto stations in 4 hours, 10 minutes via the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, shortening the trip by about an hour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen train in trial run ahead of spring 2016 launch

An H5 series bullet train for the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line makes a trial run on Dec. 26, 2014, in Hokuto on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido ahead of its spring 2016 launch. The new service will enable passengers to travel from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto stations in 4 hours, 10 minutes via the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, shortening the trip by about an hour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen has nearly 30,000 passengers in 1st 3 days

A businessman gets on a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station on March 29, 2016. A total of about 29,700 people got on trains of the new line linking Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido with Tokyo in the first three days of its opening through March 28, according to Hokkaido Railway Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

People dressed as a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train, welcome the arrival of the first train from Tokyo at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

People, including those dressed as a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet rain, throng the outside of JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the first shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo arriving at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station (bottom) in Hokkaido on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

A family board the first shinkansen bullet train bound for Tokyo at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido at 6:18 a.m. on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the first shinkansen bullet train bound for Tokyo, traveling toward the Honshu main island (to the direction of R top) shortly after departing JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido at 6:37 a.m. on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with the capital. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen Line opens for travel

A family board the first shinkansen bullet train bound for Tokyo at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido at 6:10 a.m. on March 26, 2016, the opening day of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line directly linking Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido with the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People sport Hokkaido Shinkansen train headwear to celebrate

People sport headwear resembling a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train outside the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on March 25, 2016, the day before the launch of the bullet train line's operation connecting the station and Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Hakodate abuzz ahead of Hokkaido Shinkansen line opening

A family smiles in front of a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Japan's northernmost island prefecture of Hokkaido on Feb. 13, 2016. The bullet train service will be introduced on March 26 to run the 148-kilometer route between Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido in one hour through an undersea tunnel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reporters test-ride new Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train

A Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train enters JR Shin-Hakodate Hokuto station in the northern Japan prefecture of Hokkaido on Jan. 28, 2016, for a test-ride event for reporters. The new bullet train service, to be launched in March, will connect Hokkaido and Tokyo in four hours and two minutes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police conduct drill for indiscriminate attacks

Police officers conduct a drill simulating a man attacking pedestrians indiscriminately with a kitchen knife, in Hokuto on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Oct. 15, 2015. The drill was conducted outside the station of Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, which would open in March 2016 along with the launch of the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train to make debut in March

Osamu Shimada (L), president of Hokkaido Railway Co., attends a press conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Sept. 16, 2015, to announce that the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line will open March 26, 2016. The bullet train will connect Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido and Tokyo in 4 hours 10 minutes at the fastest. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Hakodate abuzz ahead of Hokkaido Shinkansen line opening

A family rides the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train during a test run on Feb. 13, 2016, in Japan's northernmost island prefecture of Hokkaido. The bullet train service will be introduced on March 26 to run the 148-kilometer route between Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido in one hour through an undersea tunnel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido Shinkansen train on test run

AOMORI, Japan - A high-speed train of the H5 series for use on the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line comes out of the Seikan Tunnel and enters Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu island, in a trial run on Dec. 7, 2014. The line is due to start operating between Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate stations in March 2016. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Hokkaido Shinkansen new station named 'Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto'

SAPPORO, Japan - Hokkaido Railway Co.'s new station building is under construction in Hokuto, Hokkaido, in March 2014. JR Hokkaido announced on June 11, 2014, that the name of the new station for the Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train is "Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto." The bullet train line is planned to begin operating in 2016 spring. (Kyodo)

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Prototype of Japan's new bullet train

A prototype of Japan's new shinkansen bullet train, dubbed ALFA-X, pulls into JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokkaido, on Feb. 12, 2020. It will have test runs until the end of the month during wintry conditions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo