All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail ...

Services on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines were halted and delayed early on Aug. 17 as cancellations the previous day caused by heavy rain affected crew and train car preparations.

The Tokaido Shinkansen, which links the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, has been running in tandem with Japan’s economic and social development ever since it began operating ...

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

Organisers 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”. On board one chartered car of ...

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A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a suit got off. In the evening of Aug. 9, the bullet train bound for Hakata ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Explores the Hokuriku Shinkansen, the most punctual long-distance express train in the world, which takes its passengers to incredibly beautiful places in Japan. The team talk to a wasabi farmer ...