JR East has fully resumed services for the Tohoku Shinkansen a month after it deviated from the earthquake track

East Japan Railways resumed all Tohoku Shinkansen services on the Tokyo-Aomori line Thursday for the first time since a strong earthquake hit the country’s northeast and derailed an express train on the line nearly a month ago.

High-speed trains are now back in service between Fukushima and Sendai stations, the only stretch of the line where operations are still suspended. The resumption also enabled trains operating on the Hokkaido and Akita Shinkansen lines to reach Tokyo.

However, the company, also known as JR East, said efforts to restore the infrastructure are still underway and that its express trains will operate at reduced speeds and on tentative schedules for the time being.

The operator said the resumption of services on the entire line came earlier than initially scheduled for April 20 because there were no major aftershocks, so the recovery work could be accelerated.

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake on March 16 derailed the Tohoku Shinkansen Express in Shiroshi, Miyagi Prefecture, causing the suspension of services in areas stretching from Tochigi Prefecture to Iwate Prefecture. JR East has gradually restored services in the affected areas since then.

The suspension was the longest since the 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the northeastern region on March 11, 2011, when it took the company about a month and a half to resume operations on the entire line.

In the accident last month, 16 of the 17 cars derailed. Six of the 78 people on board were injured, the first time passengers were injured in a Shinkansen derailment.

Tohoku Shinkansen trains will operate at speeds as low as 160 kilometers per hour – half their normal top speed – between Koriyama Station in Fukushima Prefecture and Ichinoseki Station in Iwate Prefecture, with the number of trains reduced to 80% to 90% of that during normal operations.

Under restricted operations, travel from Tokyo to Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, would take about 30 minutes longer, and about one hour from Tokyo to Morioka, the capital of Iwate Prefecture.

The company said schedules are expected to return to normal after the Golden Week holiday in early May.

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