An ambitious leap in transportation could soon redefine how you traverse continents. The UAE is embarking on a bold journey: ...

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 ...

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, is renowned for its abundance of hot springs (onsen). Along with cozy indoor onsen, Hokkaido has many open-air outdoor onsen overlooking its breathtaking natural ...

Hokkaido dog puppies, a rare breed of dog native to Hokkaido which is a designated living natural monument of Japan, were recently born and are growing healthily in the home of a dog lover in Sapporo.

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 ...

Depending on your budget and starting point, you can travel to Hokkaido by flight, bullet train (shinkansen), car, or ferry. Travelling by air is the fastest and most convenient way to reach Hokkaido ...

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 ...

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 ...

but they did marginally slow the growth rate of Shinkansen passenger traffic. At the end of the day, even low-cost airlines couldn't beat the convenience of extremely efficient high-speed rail. Where ...

Salmon push their way upstream to where they will spawn, on Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula. Near the mouth of the Onnebetsu River in the town of Shari, Hokkaido, female salmon with roundish faces lay ...

When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...

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 ...