The Tokaido Shinkansen, which links the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, has been running in tandem ...

The U.S.'s rail system lags far behind other countries when it comes to both scale and speed, but strides are being made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore Kobe’s Kitano-cho Ijinkan with a perfect two-hour itinerary that takes you through the highlights of this historic foreign settlement. When visiting Kobe, a trip to Kitano-cho Ijinkan, the ...

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 ...

Even when the Shinkansen bullet trains first entered service in the late 1960s, domestic flights remained a crucial part of the financial puzzle for major airlines like Japan Airlines and ANA. Get all ...

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 ...

High-speed Shinkansen trains began running between Tokyo and Osaka on 1 October, 1964, heralding a new era for rail travel as Japan grew into an economic superpower after its World War II defeat. The ...

Japan’s latest Shinkansen bullet train started rolling down the tracks this spring, with a stunning new cabin, faster travel times, and substantial passenger experience improvements — and Runway Girl ...

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 ...