Just an hour from Tokyo, the upscale resort town of Karuizawa is made for forest bathing and farm-to-table dining ...

Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains this month reached a half century of service along the entire route between Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka and Hakata Station in Fukuoka. Compared to Tokaido Shinkansen ...

The opening of the Tohoku Shinkansen in 1982, and its many subsequent extensions and branches, brought the northernmost third of Japan’s main island of Honshu immeasurably closer to Tokyo in travel ...

This photo shows an artistic rendering of semi-private booths to be introduced on some Tokaido shinkansen bullet trains. (Photo courtesy of JR Central)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Semiprivate booths ...

Events were held in the Hokuriku region Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the extension of the JR Hokuriku Shinkansen Line that connects Kanazawa and Tsuruga stations.

Suspended coupled bullet train services in northeastern Japan resumed Friday, the operator said, after safety checks were completed following an incident last week in which linked shinkansen trains ...

East Japan Railway has partially resumed operations of coupled Tohoku Shinkansen trains, following a suspension after two trains detached last week. JR East suspended the service on March 6 after ...

East Japan Railway, or JR East, resumed operating coupled trains on its Tohoku Shinkansen high-speed rail line on Friday, eight days after their suspension. The company halted such train ...

The high-speed E10 Shinkansen train is set to enter service in 2030, replacing existing trains E2 and E5 on the Tohoku route. Studio Tangerine, a design consultancy company based in London ...

Studio Tangerine, which is headquartered in London, has become the first non-Japanese design partner entrusted with helping to create one of Japan's iconic Shinkansen. The new East Japan Railway ...

East Japan Railway says it will gradually resume operations of coupled Shinkansen bullet trains from Friday, before having them return to normal schedules on Saturday. The operator has suspended ...

Tohoku Shinkansen services resumed between Tokyo and Sendai stations at around 2:30 p.m. Monday after an over-two-hour suspension from around 12:20 p.m. According to East Japan Railway Co., an ...