東北新幹線、４月２０日ごろ全線再開　福島沖地震で被害１０００カ所―ＪＲ東日本

　最大震度６強を観測した福島県沖地震で被害を受けた東北新幹線について、ＪＲ東日本は２１日、全線再開は４月２０日前後になる見通しを明らかにした。電柱など設備の被害は計約１０００カ所に上り、脱線した車両の乗客３人が打撲などのけがをしたという。
　ＪＲ東によると、東北新幹線は２１日まで那須塩原―盛岡間で運休。２２日からは郡山―一ノ関間で引き続き見合わせるが、それ以外の区間では折り返し運転を実施する。
　郡山―福島間は４月２日ごろ、仙台―一ノ関間は同４日ごろ再開する方針。運休区間は代替手段として、在来線の臨時快速列車を運行する。（2022/03/21-16:57）

East Japan Railway Co. , or JR East, said Monday it expects to fully reopen its Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line, which has been partially closed due to damage from Wednesday's strong earthquake in northeastern Japan, around April 20.
   Of the currently closed section between Nasushiobara Station in Tochigi Prefecture and Morioka Station in Iwate Prefecture, Shinkansen services will be resumed in parts other than the section between Koriyama Station in Fukushima Prefecture and Ichinoseki Station in Iwate from Tuesday. Other sections will be reopened in stages.
   The earthquake, which measured upper 6, the second-highest level on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, in some parts of the Tohoku northeastern region, left around 1,000 parts of Tohoku Shinkansen facilities, including 79 power pole and some 300 sections of train tracks, damaged, according to JR East officials. Three passengers of a Shinkansen train that became derailed due to the temblor suffered injuries but none are hospitalized.