Services remain halted on the Akita Shinkansen Line and on some sections of the JR Ou and Uetsu lines.

AKITA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Akita Shinkansen bullet train services in the north of Japan's main island Honshu resumed Monday morning after they were suspended for 12 hours due to a power outage ...

TOKYO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- A power outage left 260 passengers on board a Shinkansen bullet train stranded for about four hours overnight in northern Japan, local media reported Monday.

(JR East), said. The new Shinkansen e-ticket service will be introduced on the Tohoku, Hokkaido, Joetsu, Hokuriku, Yamagata and Akita Shinkansen lines, Fukasawa said at a news conference on Feb.

Akita, Yamagata and Niigata prefectures are known for their bitterly cold winter weather, with very heavy snowfall. In the ...

A Shinkansen bullet train that was stranded for 12 hours from Sunday night in Akita Prefecture due to a power failure is up and running again. The operator says the mishap during high traffic ...

The U-turn rush of people who spent the New Year holidays in their hometowns or overseas began on Saturday with bullet trains ...