Loves this track and trip and can salute from a good barrier tonight ...

Passengers who were on the same platform at JR Tokyo Station 60 years ago got a sense of deja vu when seeing off a departing Nozomi No. 1 Shinkansen on Oct. 1. In a similar ceremony as held then ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down ...

Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six ...

With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

Organizers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the "world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen." Aboard a chartered car of ...

Passengers on the Nozomi Shinkansen not wanting to sit next to anyone or hoping to get more space to spread out need not worry much longer. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) will offer a ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

In the six decades since that first train, the word Shinkansen – meaning “new trunk line” – has become an internationally recognized byword for speed, travel efficiency and modernity.

Heavy rain briefly halted all shinkansen bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo on Saturday ...

When the first line of the Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1960, people working in the global rail industry raised a collective cry of surprise. The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of ...

Japan is famous for rail travel. Whether you’re here as a tourist or a resident, trains are often a part of daily life. There ...