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摘要

Satsumasendai is a city located in the northwestern part of the Satsuma Peninsula in Kagoshima Prefecture, on the Kyushu Island of Japan and faces the East China Sea. The city is populated by 99,589 people (at the time of the 2010 Japan Census), which makes it the fourth biggest city in Kagoshima Pref. in terms of population. All sections of the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line between Hakata Station and Kagoshi-ma-Chuo Station became operational on March 12, 2011. The Shinkansen takes you from Hakata Station to Sendai Station in Satsumasendai in one hour thirteen minutes in the shortest time. This fully operational Kyushu Shinkansen shortens the "distance" between Hakata and Satsumasendai, and changes both cities "within a commutable distance," if you put it in the words in the Kanto metropolitan area. The first Kuma-moto earthquake of a magnitude of 6.5 and an intensity of 7 on the Japanese seismic scale struck the area at 21:26 on Thursday, April 14, 2016 and derailed an out-of-service Shinkansen train, which suspended entire Kyushu Shinkansen service for a while. The Shinkansen service was restored in all sections two weeks later on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Aftershocks are expected to continue for a while, and there are many challenges in the region's restoration and reconstruction. However, news of restoration of the Kyushu Shinkansen indeed elated people in Kumamoto and Oita Pref.s, and entire Kyushu.