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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. [22] Following the quake, infrastructure damage was discovered between Shin-Shirakawa and Furukawa stations. [23] East Japan Railway closed the Tohoku Shinkansen between Nasushiobara and Morioka. [23]
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.
JK Keihin-Tohoku Line (through to Yokohama and Ōfuna via the JK Negishi Line) KK Keikyu Main Line (Keikyū Higashi-kanagawa) Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama: Kanagawa: JH 14: Ōguchi: 大口 2.2 2.2 ｜ JH 15: Kikuna: 菊名 2.6 4.8 TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line: Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama: JH 16: Shin-Yokohama: 新横浜 1.3 6.1 Tokaido Shinkansen. SH Tōkyū Shin ...
Hachinohe Station is served by the high-speed Tōhoku Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori, and forms the starting point of the Hachinohe Line to Kuji.Local services are operated by the third sector Aoimori Railway on the section of the former JR Tōhoku Main Line between Metoki and Aomori.
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.
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 ...
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 ...