TOKYO: Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy 'shinkansen' services.
TOKYO: Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy 'shinkansen' services.On Tuesday evening, a passenger alerted security to a 40-centimeter serpent lurking on a train between Nagoya and Tokyo, resulting in a 17-minute hold-up.
We have rules against bringing snakes into the shinkansen,' the spokesman told Agence France-Presse.'But we don't check passengers' baggage,' he said.The train was originally scheduled to go on to Osaka, but the company decided to use a different train for the trip, causing a delay of about 17 minutes, he said.Patrols by uniformed security guards onboard bullet trains were scaled up after a fatal stabbing in 2018 on a shinkansen that shocked normally ultra-safe Japan.
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