Tokyo-Osaka bullet train services resume after a day of disruption


Two workers were injured in the incident, which led to the cancellation of 328 train services between Nagoya and Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture. - PHOTO: AFP

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): The Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train service between Tokyo and Osaka has fully resumed on Tuesday (July 23), following a derailment of two maintenance trains in Gamagori, Aichi prefecture, a day earlier, reported Japanese media outlets.

According to Kyodo News, the operator – the Central Japan Railway, or JR Tokai – said it completed its restoration work on the evening of July 22 and added more trains on the morning of July 23 to allay the disruption.

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