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Heita Kawakatsu has long opposed the construction of a tunnel in the prefecture for the next-generation shinkansen, citing environmental concerns.

To ease overcrowding, Central Japan Railway and West Japan Railway have made many of their shinkansen seats reservation-only.

JR Central has developed scaled-down observation equipment and installed it on its working N700S series shinkansen.

The line will open no earlier than 2027 due to uncertainties over when drilling works for a tunnel in Shizuoka Prefecture can commence.

At least five passengers fell ill as the bullet train was halted at JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture.

WOODSTOCK – For Central, it’s good to be home again.

As of next spring, the smoking rooms will be replaced with areas to store drinking water to be distributed in times of emergency.

As testing of systems progresses, the differing goals of two JR companies have become apparent, reflecting the characteristics of the routes and the level of cost-cutting targeted.

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