Strong winds slowed dozens of trains on the Tohoku, Yamagata and Akita shinkansen lines Saturday, delaying about 17,000 passengers for as long as three hours, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Sunday.
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| Where'd everybody go?: The Tohoku Shinkansen Line platform at Tokyo Station is shown in this file photo. About 200 passengers were left stranded Saturday when a similar bullet train left the station without opening its doors. KYODO PHOTO |
Meanwhile, at Tokyo Station, 200 passengers were left gawking at a bullet train headed to Sendai Saturday when the engineer forgot to open the doors. The train left without them for its next stop at about 5:35 p.m.
The accidents were embarrassing for JR East, which was celebrating the Tohoku Shinkansen Line's first day of service to Aomori, marking the end of a 38-year undertaking that extended it north past Morioka, Iwate Prefecture.
A total of eight runs were suspended and 22 delayed on the three shinkansen lines.
Around 4:20 p.m. Saturday, a bullet train from Tokyo arrived at Shin-Aomori Station about three hours late.
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