Passengers arriving on the Tohoku Shinkansen platform at Tokyo and Fukushima stations Thursday -- the day operations resumed along the full length of the line, almost one month after a powerful earthquake -- were greeted by station attendants holding banners. A 60-year-old company employee, traveling from Fukushima Station to Sendai for work, was delighted as he boarded the train.
"The regular train lines have been very crowded, and commuting took much longer," said the man from Fukushima City. "I've realized just how inconvenient life is without this Shinkansen."
