The Tokaido Shinkansen connecting Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations marked ... In 1997, West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) introduced the 500 Series Shinkansen, which operated on the Sanyo section ...

(Photo courtesy of West Japan Railway)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A shinkansen bullet train ... The feat was confirmed again in 2022 after the series reached 500 million copies printed worldwide.

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...

Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo Station ... "I'm proud of the Shinkansen," he said. "As a Japanese citizen I'm proud of that." TRAIN JOURNEYS Train Journeys is a BBC Travel series that ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen Line began operations on Oct. 1, 1964, just prior to the Tokyo Olympics, with the service at that time dubbed the "dream super limited express." It had a maximum speed of ...

JR West introduced its 500 series in 1997 ... “At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the newly running Tokaido Shinkansen promoted Japan’s latest technology to the world,” said Akihiko Kusakabe ...

Tokyo Station and other Shinkansen stops were packed with people scrambling to buy tickets for other trains. Watch video 1:33 NHK World's Yamaguchi Hiroaki reports from Tokyo Station. JR East says ...

TOKYO - Japanese railway companies are using lessons learnt from a decline in passenger numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic to dream up ways to get more people to ride the Shinkansen bullet trains.