Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down ...

Passengers who were on the same platform at JR Tokyo Station 60 years ago got a sense of deja vu when seeing off a departing Nozomi No. 1 Shinkansen on Oct. 1. In a similar ceremony as held then ...

The opening of the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line on Sept. 23 extended the journey, achievable on a single ticket, for the first time in 33 years. Shortly before 9 p.m. on Sept. 23, Momo Ito ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

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

Organizers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the "world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen." Aboard a chartered car of ...

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

In the six decades since that first train, the word Shinkansen – meaning “new trunk line” – has become an internationally recognized byword for speed, travel efficiency and modernity.

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 ...

Tokyo police have arrested two suspects for allegedly using other people's credit card data to purchase Shinkansen bullet ...

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 ...

Sumo, skyscrapers, sushi – and Shinkansen. Japan’s legendary fleet of white-nosed bullet trains, which smoothly criss-cross the country at scene-blurring speeds, has emerged as one of the ...