I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but ...

Passengers on the Nozomi Shinkansen not wanting to sit next to ... and business documents,” a JR Tokai official said. The tickets will be available until June 30, with the exception of the ...

The latest Shinkansen is the N700S Series, and the name should give away that this is an evolutionary rather than ...

Grabbing a JR Pass and zipping around on the high-speed trains is an essential travel hack you should know when visiting Japan. In just a couple of hours, you can hop from Tokyo to Kyoto or ...

“While planning my trip, I came across a post on WeChat advertising Shinkansen tickets at a 30-percent discount,” a Chinese man told police after purchasing a resold ticket. He said he ...

One of the most confounding issues: Buying two tickets for a single Shinkansen ride. Travelers are constantly flummoxed by this strange practice, but it's an important one to know ahead of time.

With its amazing Shinkansen line seeing trains hurtling along at speeds up to 177mph, the Asian country's high-tech railway is said to be the world's most punctual. Japanese National Railways ...

This supplied photo shows a seat headrest cover design for the Disney-themed shinkansen, inspired by the new "Fantasy Springs" area at Tokyo DisneySea. (Copyright ...

Tokyo Station and other Shinkansen stops were packed with people scrambling to buy tickets for other trains. Watch video 1:33 NHK World's Yamaguchi Hiroaki reports from Tokyo Station. JR East says ...