With the extension of the Tohoku-Hokkaido Shinkansen scheduled to open in the spring of 2031, the company is looking to compete with the airlines, which see around 10 million passengers per year.

No injuries were reported, according to sources. However, inbound and outbound trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations, as well as the Yamagata Shinkansen Line ...

Local governments and railway officials are warning that the extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line could ... s Shiroishi Ward is second only to its Tokyo base in terms of daily volume of ...

Tokyo police have arrested two suspects for allegedly using other people's credit card data to purchase Shinkansen bullet train tickets worth about 700,000 yen, or around 4,500 dollars. Police ...

The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan. The 60 Worst Action Movies of All ...

A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the ... train departed from the starting stations of Tokyo and Shin-Osaka every two minutes on average.

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 ...

Kyle Chan is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1964, the Shinkansen set off from Tokyo to Osaka, marking a new era of rail travel. It’s hard to ...

Oh to be a pampered pooch on one of Japan's iconic Shinkansen trains heading to a ... Pomeranians and Schnauzers, boarded at Tokyo's Ueno station, and made the hour long journey to the mountainous ...

She praised Sapporo’s cityscape, onsen, nearby skiing options and ease of access ― a flight of less than two hours or a scenic four-hour train ride on the Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo. “I’m ...