It may not conform to romantic visions of scenic rail travel, but it is the very stuff of science fiction dreams – a new ...

Government may use indigenously manufactured high speed trains for next round of expansion of its bullet train project, two ...

Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched ... Tokyo to Osaka as part of the BBC series The World's Greatest Train Journeys. I used the Shinkansen as the backbone of my journey ...

Japan introduces themed One Piece bullet trains on the Sanyo Shinkansen line with unique designs. Bullet trains have unique ...

That high-speed line between Tokyo and Osaka – the Tokaido Shinkansen – became ... citizen I'm proud of that." Train Journeys is a BBC Travel series that celebrates the world's most ...

Join the BBC's Paul Carter in Tokyo as he marks 60 years of the iconic Shinkansen, better known as the bullet train. With 6.8 billion passengers and delays averaging just one minute, Paul ...

shows a Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train adorned with characters from the popular Japanese manga series "One Piece." (Photo courtesy of West Japan Railway)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A shinkansen bullet ...

the chairman of International High-speed Rail Association (IHRA), an industry group that promotes Japan's shinkansen technology overseas. In a time of both misinformation and too much information ...

Some shinkansen bullet train services were delayed Saturday morning due to a malfunctioning maintenance vehicle, affecting around 4,900 passengers, railway operator JR East said.

An N700S series bullet train, which runs on the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines, is shown in this file photo taken in July 2020 in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo ...

With the service, the company designates a train car per Shinkansen bullet train so that passengers can freely talk over the phone and have online meetings in their seats. In cooperation with West ...

or JR West, said Wednesday that it will introduce an automated operation system for its Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line. The system will be used from as early as fiscal 2029 between Tsuruga ...