The Shinkansen trains are so fast ... to build a super high speed magnetic levitation train from Washington to New York looks great on a map, but would be impossible to build in such a congested ...

“I’m happy that I also had a chance to ride the Kamome, the new bullet train on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line.” Over the past 50 years, hard-core train buffs have plotted the longest one ...

For the 60th anniversary of Japan's famous Shinkansen, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along a new coastal route, discovering the perfect combination of fast trains and slow travel.

Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo Station, a bustling cathedral to modern rail travel, it's hard to believe that it was 60 years ago this year that the first Shinkansen train departed from here ...

22:55 This effectively means the train is pulled forward by magnetic attraction while being repelled from behind at the same time. When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 ...