Ten of Japan's bullet trains will be broken up. They were flooded Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan in October. The typhoon caused a of damage. There were many of the 10 shiny bullet trains lined up next to other on near the city of Nagano. They were in water after a nearby river burst its . The trains used to run between Tokyo and a city on the Sea of Japan . The line is now running just 80 per cent of its services. The bullet train company said it hopes to run a service again by the end of March 2020.
Bullet trains are called Shinkansen in Japan. They started in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics. They became a of Japan and were the world's trains. They reach of 320kph. The bullet train rail network covers 2,764km. People take around 350 million a year on the trains. A Shinkansen spoke about the flooded trains. He said the floodwater damaged motors and . The total of the damage is around $135 million. He said: "For and safety, we [will] replace the trains with newly built instead of repairing them."
