Experience a journey onboard Japan’s Shinkansen Train, the world’s first high-speed train, traveling 319 miles (514 km) from ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen has been suspended between Tokyo Station and Shin-Osaka Station since the first scheduled train today. One man from Gifu Prefecture said, "I always come by Shinkansen, so I ...

Private rooms will be offered on bullet trains linking Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka from Oct. 1, making a comeback to the Tokaido ...

The Tokyo High Court ruled that the Tokaido Shinkansen Line is such an integral part of the nation's infrastructure that the company operator can change the requested vacation dates of its drivers and ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) suspended operations of coupled Shinkansen following a decoupling mishap on March 6 in Tokyo, inconveniencing passengers on those routes and adding runs to alleviate ...

A Japanese shinkansen bullet train operator has stepped up efforts to recycle retired train cars using a patented method to ...

After years steeped in the sacred silence of the shinkansen, a Japan Times staffer returns stateside and gets his sea legs ...

In a conference room in the Central Japan Railway Co.'s high-rise headquarters, Kenji Hagihara, a public relations manager, pauses in his telling of the story of Japan's high-speed rail system and ...

Carrier integrates bullet train network with airfreight operations from 13 January, cutting Sendai-Singapore times from 24 to ...

The iconic "Doctor Yellow" train belonging to Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, arrived at Tokyo Station on Wednesday after completing its final inspection of tracks on the Tokaido Shinkansen line ...

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The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics may be two years away, but Japan is already flexing its transportation muscles. Central Japan Railway Co. has rolled out its new high-speed Shinkansen N700S – or ...