Some 60,000 passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line found themselves going nowhere in a hurry on Dec. 26 after a snow-laden tree fell onto the tracks and cut power to one section of the line for over two hours. According to line operator Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai), the some 10-meter tall tree fell onto the Tokyo-bound tracks in the Gifu Prefecture town of Sekigahara at about 9:05 a.m., hitting the overhead power lines on the way down and cutting electricity between JR Gifu-Hashima and Maibara stations.
All Tokyo-bound trains between Shin-Osaka and Maibara stations and all southbound trains between Tokyo and Gifu-Hashima stations were halted, with a total of 20 trains canceled and 66 trains delayed for up to three hours. At Tokyo Station, JR staff were assailed by businesspeople and families asking when the trains would start moving again, while the ticket office was swamped with people booked onto canceled trains looking for refunds. Read More
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