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Japan: Shinagawa Station Overcrowded as Train Suspensions Disrupt Rush Hour

On Wednesday, train suspensions caused by a fatal accident disrupted the evening rush hour, leading to severe congestion at stations. At Shinagawa Station, platforms were packed with passengers and became dangerously overcrowded. According to JR East, the accident occurred between Yokohama and Shin-Kawasaki stations on the Yokosuka Line. As a result, services on the Yokosuka Line and several other major lines in the Tokyo metropolitan area were temporarily suspended.

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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 7

Tokyo's main JR Yamanote Line and JR Keihin-Tohoku Line suspended service on Friday, January 16, after a power outage caused by overnight construction work near Tamachi Station. The disruption caused widespread chaos for morning commuters, with some passengers forced to evacuate from a stranded train by walking along the railroad tracks.

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Power outage stops train in Japan

Commuters crowd the Keikyu Kamata Station in Tokyo after JR train services were suspended due to a power outage between JR Shimbashi and Shinagawa stations, disrupting major rail lines in the Japanese capital on Jan. 16, 2026.

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RECAP: Record Rain Batters Tokyo as Chiba Sees Tornado-Like Event

Heavy rain and thunderstorms caused extreme weather across the Kanto region on Thursday, September 11. In Tokyo, Setagaya Ward recorded 92.0 mm of rain and Ota Ward 88.5 mm in just one hour, with some central areas receiving over 100 mm. The intense downpours disrupted rail and airport services and caused rivers including the Yazawa and Tachiai to overflow. Meanwhile, in Chiba Prefecture, a tornado-like phenomenon was observed, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a “Tornado Advisory” for the Tokyo area.

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Japan: Storms Hit Tokyo and Surrounding Areas, Causing Floods and Power Outages 3

Heavy rain battered Tokyo and surrounding areas on Thursday, September 11, flooding streets, cutting power to over 7,000 homes, grounding flights, and triggering emergency alerts for floods and landslides.

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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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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 5

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Japan: Typhoon Ampil Approaches Kanto Region, Bringing Torrential Rains

Typhoon Ampil (No. 7) developed into a powerful storm and approached the Kanto region, including Tokyo, on Friday, August 16. Japan Meteorological Agency issued warnings for violent winds and mudslides, as well as high tides, flooding, and swollen and overflowing rivers.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa (bottom) and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Explosive coronavirus infections in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 7 Kyodo - Commuters wearing face masks head to work at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on the morning of Jan. 7, 2021, as Japan is poised to declare another state of emergency in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures later in the day in view of the unabated uptrend in coronavirus infections. The capital's virus cases for the day topped 2,000 for the first time.

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Maglev train

NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo taken in November 2017 shows a magnetically levitated train that is used for testing. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo shows a magnetically levitated train that set a world speed record of 603 kilometers per hour in a test run conducted by Central Japan Railway Co. on April 21, 2015. The test was conducted using new LO-series cars on the track between Uenohara and Fuefuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo shows a magnetically levitated train that set a world speed record of 603 kilometers per hour in a test run conducted by Central Japan Railway Co. on April 21, 2015. The test was conducted using new LO-series cars on the track between Uenohara and Fuefuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

NAGOYA, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - A tunnel under construction for Central Japan Railway's maglev train service is opened to the public in Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2017. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo taken in September 2014 shows a magnetically levitated train that is used for testing. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

KOFU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Construction of an emergency exit for Central Japan Railway's maglev train service is under way in Hayakawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 28, 2016. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Undated photo shows a magnetically levitated train displayed to the public in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture. A maglev service link will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Undated photo shows a magnetically levitated train undergoing testing in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Maglev train

TSURU, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Photo taken in August 2013 shows magnetically levitated train undergoing testing in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture. A maglev train service will start between Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in 2027.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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Sign language interpretation service using iPad

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on June 17, 2013, shows East Japan Railway Co. testing a sign language interpretation service using a videophone application on an Apple Inc. iPad tablet computer.

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Sign language interpretation service using iPad

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on June 17, 2013, shows East Japan Railway Co. testing a sign language interpretation service using a videophone application on an Apple Inc. iPad tablet computer.

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Hunting for AUM fugitive

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers leave for a patrol from JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo to look for Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM Shinrikyo cult fugitive, on June 9, 2012. Takahashi has been wanted over the cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

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TEPCO power supply-demand ratio indicators

TOKYO, Japan - Displays at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo show power demand in Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s service areas came to 90 percent of the utility's supply capacity in the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2011. The demand reached 49.36 million kilowatts after 2 p.m. the same day, the largest so far this summer and equal to 90.4 percent of the supply capacity, according to preliminary data released by the company. Demand for electricity grew as high temperatures increased the use of air conditioners, the utility, known as TEPCO, said.

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Typhoon lands in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters jam a passage in Tokyo's Shinagawa Station after a number of JR train runs were suspended due to Typhoon Melor on Oct. 8, 2009.

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Commuters stranded by thundering rainstorm in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Commuters are stranded at JR Shimbashi Station in Tokyo on July 29 as a thundering rainstorm knocked out train service of the busy JR Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines. The downpour also halted the Shinkansen bullet train service between Shinagawa in Tokyo and Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture and cut short a pre-Olympic soccer game in Tokyo between Japan and Argentina.

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Teen attacks 5 with kitchen knives in street rampage in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police cordon off part of a shopping street in front of Togoshiginza Station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, where a 16-year-old boy armed with kitchen knives attacked five people on Jan. 5, injuring two of them.

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Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in last defiant gesture

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passing by JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo picks up a copy of an extra reporting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. The headline reads: Koizumi is the first prime minister in office to visit the shrine on the anniversary of the end of the war in 21 years.

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Met. gov't, JR East in conflict over hike on property tax

TOKYO, Japan - Stores are jammed with customers at ''Ecute (cute station) Shinagawa'' in JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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(2)Police strengthen security for bullet train services

TOKYO, Japan - Police stand guard at Japan Railway's Shinagawa Station on March 18 as the National Police Agency stepped up security for train services nationwide the same day following the March 11 rush-hour train bombings in Madrid which killed more than 200 people.

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(3)Tokyo's Shinagawa opens bullet train station

TOKYO, Japan - Two ''QRIO'' robots walk to go on board a bullet train during a gala ceremony held to mark the opening of a new Shinkansen bullet train station in Tokyo's Shinagawa on Oct. 1.

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(2)Tokyo's Shinagawa opens bullet train station

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers go on board a bullet train at the newly opened Shinagawa Station on Oct. 1.

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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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NGOs call for release of Afghan refugees detained in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 30 representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) call for the release of Afghan refugees currently detained in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, at Tokyo's JR Shinagawa Station on Jan. 21 as nations around the world and international institutions gathered in Tokyo to discuss reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan.

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Commemorative train marks Tsuruga port's centennial

TOKYO, Japan - Well-wishers see off a commemorative train leaving Tokyo's Shinagawa Station on July 17 for Tsuruga port in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The train marks a railway service linking Asia and Europe in the early 1900s and celebrate the port's centennial.

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Japan's struggle to contain COVID

People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk on a pedestrian crossing in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on July 22, 2022. Tokyo reported 34,995 new COVID-19 cases the same day, reaching an all-time high for the second consecutive day.

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Japan's struggle to contain COVID

People wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus walk on a pedestrian crossing in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on July 22, 2022. Tokyo reported 34,995 new COVID-19 cases the same day, reaching an all-time high for the second consecutive day.

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Preparations for "Quad" summit in Tokyo

Police officers and security dogs patrol at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo on May 11, 2022, ahead of a summit in the capital on May 24 of the "Quad" group of Indo-Pacific democracies -- the United States, Japan, Australia and India.

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Strong earthquake in Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2021, as train services are disrupted after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted the Tokyo region.

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Strong earthquake in Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2021, as train services are disrupted after a magnitude-5.9 earthquake jolted the Tokyo region.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

People wait for taxis in front of JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo as train services are suspended after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

People sit outside entrance gates at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo as train services are suspended after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

Train passengers wait outside entrance gates at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021, leading to a power outage inside the station.

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Earthquake jolts Tokyo region

A Tokaido Line train is stopped at JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Oct. 7, 2021, leading to a power outage at the station.

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NGOs call for release of Afghan refugees detained in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - About 30 representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) call for the release of Afghan refugees currently detained in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, at Tokyo's JR Shinagawa Station on Jan. 21 as nations around the world and international institutions gathered in Tokyo to discuss reconstruction assistance for Afghanistan.

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Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine in last defiant gesture

TOKYO, Japan - A woman passing by JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo picks up a copy of an extra reporting on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15. The headline reads: Koizumi is the first prime minister in office to visit the shrine in 21 years. (Kyodo)