Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Prophet of the Way Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Train service in Tokyo area April 7 Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:51:36 +0900 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ms+LDs64BGL2BqL+lv8PSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; ja; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169850 Tokyo area trains are running on a normal or near-normal basis. Off peak frequency is about 80% There are changes in service patterns during the daytime. --- The Joban Line is now open to Hitachi City and Takahagi. Extreme rush-hour congestion caused by vehicle shortages is over at last. Ltd. Express Hitachi is not running yet. The Mito Line has also reopened. JR Central Tokaido Line (west of Atami) and Gotemba Line are back to a near-normal schedule. Like elsewhere, daytime services are curtailed. The Tohoku Shinkansen opens between Morioka and Ichinoseki in the afternoon. In the Sendai area the Tohoku Line opened between Fukushima and Iwanuma. Now it is possible to get from Kouriyama to Sendai by local train. --- JR East has still not uploaded the latest timetable to their official Narita Express English language pages. It looks like things will stay this way. Use their Japanese timetable: http://www.jreast.co.jp/railway/pdf/nex_timetable.pdf Rail services in Tokyo area, updated April 7: http://www46.atwiki.jp/earthquakeinfo_en/pages/40.html (Narita Express departures at Tokyo, Shinjuku and Yokohama also in this page)