The Yamagata Shinkansen Line's Tsubasa bullet train, traveling from Yamagata Station to Tokyo Station, collided with a fallen ...

East Japan Railway Co. plans to develop a cargo-only car—and possibly an entire train—for its Shinkansen services to increase freight transportation capacities, offering a speedy and expanded ...

Central Japan Railway Co. plans to test a pet-friendly car on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's busiest bullet train line linking Tokyo and Osaka, allowing passengers to travel without putting their ...

A Shinkansen bullet train that was stranded for 12 hours from Sunday night in Akita Prefecture due to a power failure is up ...

But in May, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) ran a trial Shinkansen program where passengers could ride with their dogs on the seats next to them. Soon enough, Takeoka and her pet Chihuahua found ...

Akita Shinkansen bullet train services in the north of Japan's main island Honshu resumed Monday morning after they were ...

The mountainous countryside makes for steep gradients and lots of curves. The Shinkansen trains are so fast that booming in and out of tunnels can create serious turbulence. Running through some ...

TOKYO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Heavy snow hit Sea of Japan coastal areas in northern, central and western Japan on Friday, disrupting bullet train operations and forcing the closure of some sections of ...

JR East says the power outage was caused by the failure of an electrical cable above the Shinkansen track in Saitama City near Tokyo at around 10 a.m. Tuesday. Four bullet trains ground to a halt ...

SAITAMA -- The overhead electric wire trouble that caused much of the shinkansen bullet train network linking Tokyo and north-central Japan to grind to a halt on Jan. 23 actually damaged one of ...