When they stepped on board, they immediately noticed what sets this train apart. Sisters share honest review of their travel ...

Falling ridership is putting pressure on JR Hokkaido to close underutilized local lines even as it struggles to complete the ...

TOKYO: The Tohoku Shinkansen line stopped to conduct a train inspection between Ueno and Omiya Stations on Thursday (March 6) morning after the train cars decoupled and came to a halt, according ...

Semiprivate booths with luxurious seats will be introduced on shinkansen bullet trains connecting Tokyo and western Japan by March 20 ...

Advertisement The decoupling happened for the second time in six months on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line. On March 6 Hayabusa and Komachi trains on that line decoupled at low speed -- about 37mph ...

Unseasonably hot weather has covered wide areas in Japan, with temperatures rising 30 degrees Celsius or higher in ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to ...

A coupler connecting the Hayabusa No. 21 and Komachi No. 21 trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train line in eastern and northeastern Japan came undone on Thursday, temporarily halting service.

An evolution of the 2011-era E5 Series Shinkansen, the E10 retains the iconic duckbill-nosed train design, and features ...

But we do not expect a return to prepandemic passenger levels on conventional lines given the declining population. High-speed bullet trains, or Shinkansen, should prove more robust, given a ...

But we do not expect a return to prepandemic passenger levels on conventional lines given the declining population. High-speed bullet trains, or Shinkansen, should prove more robust, given a ...