Travelers were forced to improvise and find alternate ways to their destinations as the Tokaido Shinkansen Line was partially suspended on July 22, stranding an estimated 250,000 passengers during ...

Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) said it will start replacing almost half of the shared toilets with women-only toilets on shinkansen trains this month, with work to be completed by March 15. JR ...

A Tokaido Line N700S shinkansen bullet train is seen in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, on July 1, 2020. (Mainichi/Koji Hyodo) TOKYO -- Women-only washrooms will soon be installed on shinkansen bullet ...

All Tokaido and Sanyo bullet trains will include female-only toilets by next spring. Operator Central Japan Railway's 16-car bullet trains currently have only unisex toilets on each end of odd ...

That high-speed line between Tokyo and Osaka – the Tokaido Shinkansen – became known by travellers as "The Golden Route", whisking passengers between two of Japan's great cities as it passed ...

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To meet growing demand for reserved seats, the Nozomi Shinkansen’s operators have decided to reduce the number of free-seating train cars from three to two next spring. Beginning in March ...

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Researchers from Princeton and MIT have found a way to intercept underwater messages from the air, overturning long-held assumptions about the security of underwater transmissions. The team ...

Japan’s Tokaido Road existed as a significant trade route connecting Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo). Used for several hundreds of years, the Tokaido or “Eastern Sea Road” became especially famous ...

18 (Jiji Press)--West Japan Railway Co., 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 ...