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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Tohoku area approximately 46 km (29 mi) east of Namie on the evening of 13 February 2021. [21] Following the quake, infrastructure damage was discovered between Shin-Shirakawa and Furukawa stations. [22] East Japan Railway closed the Tohoku Shinkansen between Nasushiobara and Morioka. [22]
The Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel (岩手一戸トンネル, Iwate-Ichinohe Ton’neru) is a 25.81 km [1] terrestrial railway tunnel in Japan — part of the Tōhoku Shinkansen, linking Tokyo with Aomori. When opened in 2002 it was the longest in-use terrestrial (land based) tunnel in world, but the title was overtaken by the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in ...
The Shinkansen line shortens the distance between Hakata and Nagasaki by 6.2% (9.6 km (6.0 mi)), and while only 64% of the route is built to full Shinkansen standards, it eliminated the slowest sections of the previous narrow-gauge route.
Hayate (はやて) is a high-speed Shinkansen service operated in Japan, on the Tōhoku Shinkansen by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) since 2002 and on the Hokkaido Shinkansen by JR Hokkaido since 26 March 2016. It operates as far as the northern terminus of Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, and it is the second-fastest service on the Tohoku ...
However, when the Tōhoku Shinkansen opened, it occupied land previously used for the tracks of mid and long-distance Tōhoku Main Line trains. As a result, only a small number of commuter lines such as the Keihin–Tōhoku Line now operate to Tokyo from the north, making Tokyo Station's status as part of the Tōhoku Main Line somewhat circumspect.
The Yamanote Line and the Keihin Tohoku Line tracks were moved slightly to the east to be aligned closer to the Tokaido Shinkansen tracks. The area on the west side of the yard made available will be redeveloped with high-rise office buildings, creating an international business center with connections to the Shinkansen and Haneda Airport.
Ichinoseki Tunnel (一関トンネル, Ichinoseki tonneru) is a tunnel on JR's Tohoku Shinkansen that is located near Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki city, Iwate Prefecture with total length of 9.730 km. It was built and completed in 1982.
The Nasuno (なすの, "field of Nasu") is a train service operated on the Tōhoku Shinkansen by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan. [1] It serves all stations between Tokyo and Kōriyama , a medium-sized city approximately 225 km north of Tokyo.