The Hokuhoku Line (Hakutaka Ltd.) resumed operation October 2nd.

The following route is now possible:

Tokyo - (Shinkansen TANIGAWA) - Echigo-Yuzawa 
      - (Hokuhoku Line & JR West HAKUTAKA) - Toyama - Kanazawa

Night trains between Tokyo Ueno and Kanazawa are still out of service.  So too
are night trains from Osaka to Niigata, Aomori, Hakodate and Sapporo.

Part of the Joetsu Shinkansen (Tsubame-Sanjo - Niigata) has reopened, and a
shuttle bus crosses the severed section.