A derailed Nippori-Toneri Liner train is seen in Tokyo's Adachi Ward on the morning of Oct. 8, 2021. (Mainichi/Naotsune Umemura)

       TOKYO -- Services on the Nippori-Toneri Liner, an automatically operated transit system in Tokyo, remained suspended on the morning of Oct. 8 after a train on the line derailed during a magnitude 5.9 earthquake the previous evening.

       The automated guideway transit system, which runs between Nippori and Minumadai-shinsuikoen stations in eastern Tokyo, was one of many railway lines affected by the quake, which struck at 10:41 p.m. on Oct. 7 and measured an upper 5 on the 7-point Japanese seismic intensity scale in parts of Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture.

       According to East Japan Railway Co., services on the Shonan Shinjuku Line were still suspended as of 7:40 a.m. on Oct. 8, and expected to resume around 3 p.m. Suspensions and delays were also seen on the Sobu, Tokaido, Utsunomiya, Takasaki and Tsurumi lines, among others.

       (Japanese original by Richi Tanaka, Tokyo City News Department)

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