Loves this track and trip and can salute from a good barrier tonight ...

1 Shinkansen on Oct. 1. In a similar ceremony as held then, JR Tokai officials were on hand to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Shinkansen's inauguration with the departure of the Hikari No.

Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six ...

Heavy rain briefly halted all shinkansen bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo on Saturday ...

With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

When the first line of the Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1960, people working in the global rail industry raised a collective cry of surprise. The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of ...

SAKU (Nagano): Before the Shinkansen was chosen to stop here, Fumihiro Yanagisawa, 52, felt stuck in a town that was going nowhere. Its main industry – agriculture – is on a slow decline.

Japan is famous for rail travel. Whether you’re here as a tourist or a resident, trains are often a part of daily life. There ...

Downpours have been hitting northern Kyushu and the Chugoku region in western Japan, triggering landslide and flooding alerts ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail ...

From Japan's bullet trains to TGV's swift services, here are the finest and fastest high-speed train routes around the world.

GEKIDAN SHINKANSEN, one of Japan's most talked-about theater groups, has announced that the final performance of its latest production, BASARAO, will be live-streamed in five countries overseas ...