The Tsukuba Express logo is seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 9, 2019. (Mainichi/Koji Yoshioka)

       TOKYO -- Operations on the Tsukuba Express train line were temporarily suspended from around 8:40 a.m. on Aug. 23, apparently after lightning struck near a general depot in the city of Tsukubamirai in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.

       The railway operator announced on its website shortly before noon that operations had resumed at around 11:54 a.m., though delays were still being experienced.

       The Tsukuba Express line links Akihabara Station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward to Tsukuba Station in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.

       (Japanese original by Chie Yamashita, Digital News Center, and Shotaro Kinoshita, Tokyo City News Department)

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