Shinkansen platforms have become more wheelchair friendly at JR Tokyo Station thanks to improvements ... for a straight platform on a concrete track at a “7-cm gap and 3-cm difference” in ...

Used for tamping and transporting ballast on the tracks, the maintenance vehicles collided when one struck the other while stationary. At Tokyo Station's Shinkansen gates, passengers could be seen ...

Watch video 1:33 NHK World's Yamaguchi Hiroaki reports from Tokyo Station. JR East says the power outage was caused by the failure of an electrical cable above the Shinkansen track in Saitama City ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen Line began operations on Oct. 1, 1964, just prior to the Tokyo Olympics, with the service at that time dubbed the "dream super limited express." It had a maximum speed of ...

With the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen from Kanazawa to Tsuruga ... eagerly awaiting the extension as improved access to the Tokyo Metropolitan area is expected to increase the number ...

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 ...

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