Golden Week 2020: Shinkansen Trains Empty

[bill937ca]

Seats on many Shinkansen bullet trains were said to be 90% empty as people refrain from travel during Japan’s normally busy Golden Week period amid the COVID19 pandemic.

 

Many Shinkansen trains not in service were lined up at a depot in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.  (See photo in article).

 

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0006525633

[railsquid]

Quietest Golden Week ever.

 

It was mightily weird walking to the convenience store just now, even though it's around midnight, particularly on a warm evening normally one is guaranteed to encounter people walking, riding bicycles or driving, but apart from a sole refuse disposal truck, no-one around.

[bill937ca]

Yes, even the Romancecar trains are suspended.

 

[Martijn Meerts]

The picture looks a bit like my hidden storage yard 😄

 

[Cat]

2 hours ago, Martijn Meerts said:

The picture looks a bit like my hidden storage yard 😄

 

 

But with no room to get fingers in.  How do they fix derailments?!?!

[Martijn Meerts]

11 hours ago, Cat said:

 

But with no room to get fingers in.  How do they fix derailments?!?!

 

Very carefully and with much patience 🙂

 

[bill937ca]

Get down on your hands and knees and observe.  🙂

[bill937ca]

Another article on the lack of passengers during Golden Week.

 

https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0006526133?fbclid=IwAR38QEC9IKZGCEiK9b2REHAV3lNFcavbGiY1M9lGRjEELQXArrMYFyF2OZs

 

This is Wakasa Railway Co., papercraft mentioned in the article. It downloads as a Word doc. file.

 

http://www.infosakyu.ne.jp/~wakatetu/paper.html

Edited May 4, 2020 by bill937ca