Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along ...

Package prices are not disclosed, as they change depending on the type of service ... online meetings in trains. With the service, the company designates a train car per Shinkansen bullet train ...

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 ...

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

The special tobacco surtax, one of the four types of taxes levied on cigarettes ... reasons for the complete ban on smoking in Shinkansen trains. “Because we are required to prevent secondhand ...

Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along what's been dubbed the "New Golden Route". Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo ...

A shinkansen operates outside of Japan ... unstable territory that makes the island a perfect test bed for fast trains otherwise exclusively used in the home market. "The fact that it has already ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- 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.