With its impressive Shinkansen line, where trains race at speeds up to 177mph, Japan's advanced railway system is reputed to be the most punctual in the world. Japanese National Railways ...

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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 ...

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 March 6 morning after the train cars decoupled and came to a halt, according to JR East.

East Japan Railway, or JR East, said Tuesday that it will resume from Friday operating coupled trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen line, which have been suspended since last week. JR East suspended ...

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 ...

The suspension follows a serious incident in which the Hayabusa-Komachi No. 21 combined train on the Tohoku Shinkansen line decoupled while running. JR East said its plans for the services after ...

The disconnection involved the Hayabusa and Komachi high-speed trains on the Shinkansen line that links Tokyo to northeastern Japan, similar to the previous decoupling in September. No one was ...

which is slated to replace the current E2 and E5 bullet trains currently on the Tohoku Shinkansen line, which went into service in 1997 and 2011, respectively. The E5 shinkansen, with its bright teal ...

A monitor at JR Tokyo Station informs travelers that some shinkansen services on the Tohoku and other lines in northeastern Japan are halted on March 10, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All bullet ...