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Power outage disrupts train services in Tokyo

An information board at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026 notifies passengers of the suspension of train services on the Joban Line, after a power outage at the station.

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Power outage disrupts train services in Tokyo

An information board at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026 notifies passengers of the suspension of train services on the Joban Line, after a power outage at the station.

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Power outage disrupts train services in Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people walk along the tracks of the JR Joban Line in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026, as train services are disrupted following a power outage at Ueno Station.

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Power outage disrupts train services in Tokyo

People walk along the tracks of the JR Joban Line in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026, as train services are disrupted following a power outage at Ueno Station.

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Power outage disrupts train services in Tokyo

People walk along the tracks of the JR Joban Line in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2026, as train services are disrupted following a power outage at Ueno Station.

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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 5

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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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 4

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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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 2

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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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 3

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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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

TOKYO, Japan, July 1 Kyodo - JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service. (Kyodo)

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

Staff pose for a photo by JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia on June 30, 2025 after it arrived at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo following a three-day round-trip service between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan, on its last run before retirement. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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Luxury train Cassiopeia's last run

JR East's luxury sleeper express train Cassiopeia arrives at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 30, 2025, after making its last run before retirement, a three-day round-trip tour between Tokyo and Sendai, northeastern Japan. The 12-car train, including a restaurant car, ran a regular service between 1999 and 2016, after which it was dedicated to providing a luxury tour service.

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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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Shinkansen halted after train's cars decouple

An electronic sign at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo notifies passengers of a suspension of Shinkansen bullet train services in eastern Japan on March 6, 2025, after two train cars on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line decoupled, causing an emergency stop.

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Paper dianosaurs 'gaze down' at people at Ueno Station

TOKYO, Japan - Handmade decorative paper dinosaurs made of "washi" Japanese paper produced in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, "look down" at people passing through a concourse at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 16, 2014. The dinosaurs will be exhibited through July 22 to promote traditional craft and tourism resources of the western Japan prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.

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Paper dinosaurs set up in Fukui Pref.'s publicity blitz

TOKYO, Japan - Handmade decorative paper dinosaurs made of "washi" Japanese paper produced in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, are hung from the ceiling of a concourse at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, to promote traditional craft and tourism resources of the western Japan prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.

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Taiwan museum's exhibitions in Japan might be canceled

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 20, 2014, shows signboards advertising an exhibition, scheduled to begin June 24, of ancient Chinese artifacts from Taiwan's National Palace Museum, set up inside JR Ueno Station in Tokyo's Taito Ward. The word "national" is omitted in referring to the museum on the signboards. Taiwan warned the same day the exhibition will be canceled if posters and other promotional materials prepared by the Japanese side continue to omit the word "national" in referring to the museum.

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People pose with retired 'Akebono' night train at Aomori Station

AOMORI, Japan - People pose for photos in front of the "Akebono" overnight express train after it made its final journey from Ueno Station in Tokyo to Aomori Station in northeastern Japan on March 15, 2014. East Japan Railway Co. decided to retire the "Akebono," which began operating in October 1970, due to aging train cars and a decrease in passengers.

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Last 'Akebono' night train arrives at Aomori Station

AOMORI, Japan - The last "Akebono" overnight express train from Ueno Station in Tokyo arrives at its final destination, Aomori Station in northeastern Japan, on March 15, 2014. East Japan Railway Co. decided to retire the Akebono, which began operating in October 1970, due to aging train cars and a decrease in passengers.

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Ueno Station right after 1923 quake

TOKYO, Japan - A plaza in front of Tokyo's Ueno Station is inundated with people carting furniture and other belongings and trying to flee after the Japanese capital and its vicinity was struck by a magnitude 7.9 quake, now known as the Great Kanto Earthquake, on Sept. 1, 1923. (Photo taken by a Kyodo News predecessor entity)

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Pikachu train in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Pikachu, a popular character from the animation series Pocket Monsters (Pokemon), and the station master wave to a shinkansen bullet train with a Pikachu painting at a platform at Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 30, 2011.

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Snow in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Pedestrians wait for a traffic light to change as snow falls in front of JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on March 7, 2011.

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Pandas coming to Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A shop in Tokyo's JR Ueno Station sells bread featuring panda faces on Feb. 21, 2011, prior to the arrival of a pair of giant pandas from China at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo.

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Japan's 1st hybrid tourism train

TOKYO, Japan - People pose near the HB-E300 hybrid train of East Japan Railway Co. during a public opening event at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2010. The company, more widely called JR East, plans to run the HB-E300, the first sightseeing train in Japan equipped with a hybrid system, in Nagano Prefecture from Oct. 2 to Dec. 26.

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New express linking Tokyo-Narita

TOKYO, Japan - Narita Sky Access, a new high-speed airport express line linking Tokyo's Ueno and Narita airport stations was shown to the media at Ueno Station on June 23, 2010. The express is scheduled to start operations on July 17.

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Farewell journey of Noto express

TOKYO, Japan - The Noto express departs JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on its final overnight run to Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on March 12, 2010, seen off by train enthusiasts crowding the platform. The Noto entered service in the 1950s.

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Farewell journey of Hokuriku express

TOKYO, Japan - The Hokuriku express is set to leave JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on its final overnight run to Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on March 12, 2010, as train enthusiasts crowd the platform. The Hokuriku entered service in the 1950s.

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All aboard the Pokemon bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Passengers wave from a Shinkansen bullet train painted with an image of Pikachu, a popular Pokemon character, at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 18. East Japan Railway Co., or more widely known as JR East, started running the Pokemon high-speed trains the same day on the Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita, Yamagata and Nagano Shinkansen lines.

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All aboard the Pokemon bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Children are photographed in front of a Shinkansen train car painted with images of popular Pokemon characters at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on July 18. East Japan Railway Co., or more widely known as JR East, started running the Pokemon high-speed trains the same day on the Tohoku, Joetsu, Akita, Yamagata and Nagano Shinkansen lines.

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Sarin attack anniversary observed at Tokyo subway station

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Ueno, a senior official at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Kasumigaseki Station, lays flowers at an altar set up in the station on March 20 during a ceremony to mark the 14th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks. (Pool photo)

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Spanish king, queen visit Tsukuba Space Center

TOKYO, Japan - Spanish King Juan Carlos (2nd from L) and Queen Sofia (2nd from R), accompanied by Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (R), leave JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on Nov. 12 on a special train for the imperial family for Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. (Pool photo)

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New train car for royal family and state guests unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - East Japan Railway Co. unveiled to the press in Tokyo on July 23 a newly-made train that comprises a special train car to be used by the royal family and state guests and five quality cars for use by tourists. Photo shows the front train car shown to the press at Tokyo's JR Ueno Station.

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Singer Izawa, father of actress Yuki Kudo, dies at age 69

TOKYO, Japan - Singer Hachiro Izawa sings his hit tune outside JR Ueno Station in a photo taken in july 2003. Izawa, the father of actress Yuki Kudo who has starred in numerous international films, died of esophagus cancer at a hospital in Tokyo on Jan. 17, his office said on Jan. 18. He was 69.

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Tokyo's 'Ameyoko' packed with year-end shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - The narrow ''America Yokocho,'' known popularly as 'Ameyoko' for short, near Tokyo's JR Ueno Station, is packed with people who seek to buy foodstuffs for their year-end and New Year holiday season.

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Security tightened in Tokyo, Expo site after London blasts

TOKYO, Japan - Station attendants remove a trash can at Ueno Station of Tokyo Metro Co., the operator of Tokyo's subway system, in central Tokyo on July 8 following a series of bomb attacks in London.

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Evacuation of elementary school students to countryside

TOKYO, Japan - Groups of elementary school students get on a train to evacuate out of Tokyo to escape air raids. This file photo was taken at Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 1944.

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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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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara cuts tape at opening of Oedo Line

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (2nd from R) and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi (3rd from R) cut a tape Dec. 11 at a ceremony at Shinjuku-Nishiguchi Station to celebrate the completion of the Oedo Line, Tokyo's fourth city-run subway. The 41-kilometer quasi-loop subway runs beneath downtown Tokyo, passing under the Shinjuku, Roppongi, Shiodome, Ryogoku, Ueno and Kagurazaka districts.

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JAPAN-TOKYO-CHINA-GIANT PANDAS-ARRIVAL-ANNIVERSARY

(221029) -- TOKYO, Oct. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People take photos of a panda-shaped balloon, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese giant pandas, at the exit of Ueno station in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 28, 2022. To mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese giant pandas in Japan, Tokyo's Ueno Zoo has recently set up a "Giant Panda Post Office". TO GO WITH "Feature: Japanese welcome 50th anniversary of China's giant pandas' arrival" (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Display for hearing-impaired people at railway station

Photo taken at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, shows a device that displays arrival and other train information automatically converted from platform announcements and other sound data for people with impaired hearing. East Japan Railway Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. introduced the service on a trial basis.

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Display for hearing-impaired people at railway station

Photo taken at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, shows a device that displays arrival and other train information automatically converted from platform announcements and other sound data for people with impaired hearing. East Japan Railway Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. introduced the service on a trial basis.

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Display for hearing-impaired people at railway station

Photo taken at JR Ueno Station in Tokyo on June 15, 2022, shows a device that displays arrival and other train information automatically converted from platform announcements and other sound data for people with impaired hearing. East Japan Railway Co. and Fujitsu Ltd. introduced the service on a trial basis.

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