Snake halts Japanese bullet trains after wrapping around power line

One of Japan's busiest slug bid lines came to a halt aft a snake tangled itself successful a powerfulness line, causing a powerfulness outage.

Tokaido Shinkansen trains moving betwixt Tokyo and Osaka were suspended from astir 17:25 section clip connected Wednesday.

Services resumed astatine astir 19:00 section time, relation Central Japan Railway Company said, according to section media.

Japan is presently successful 1 of its busiest vacation seasons, Golden Week, which consists of 4 nationalist holidays successful 7 days, and volition spot trains, airports and vacation hotspots deed their peak.

Osaka is besides hosting the World Expo this year, which volition spot millions of overseas and home visitors flock to the metropolis until it ends successful October.

The snake entanglement occurred betwixt Gifu-Hashima and Maibara stations, which suspended Tokyo-bound trains betwixt Shin-Osaka and Nagoya, and the Osaka-bound trains betwixt Shin-Osaka and Tokyo, according to Japanese quality bureau Kyodo News.

While authorities worked to get powerfulness restored, passengers reportedly gathered astir unit astatine 1 presumption portion ample queues formed astatine summons machines.

One predominant shinkansen traveller, who was returning to Tokyo, said it was the archetypal clip helium had experienced this.

"I usage the shinkansen respective times a month, but this is the archetypal clip I person experienced suspensions owed to a powerfulness outage," Satoshi Tagawa, 46, told Kyodo News.

But 26-year-old Kazutoshi Tachi, said helium was "fed up with the troubles" to services.

"I privation them to tally connected time," helium added.

This is not the archetypal clip a snake has brought the shinkansen work to a halt.

In April 2024, determination was a 17-minute hold-up portion authorities removed a 16 inch (40.6cm) snake from the bid betwixt Nagoya and Tokyo, according to CBS News, BBC News's US partner.