Whether you’re a train fan, an all-around travel buff, or a Japanophile in general, it’s always cool to catch a glimpse of ...

Studio Tangerine, a design consultancy company based in London, is the first-ever foreign firm to collaborate on the creation ...

Initially, the 0 Series Shinkansen traveled at a maximum speed of 210 kph, making it the first train to operate at over 200 kph. However, since the Tokaido Shinkansen line was constructed in a ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 4 announced it will begin developing the latest E10 Series of the Tohoku Shinkansen ...

A 0-series shinkansen train was outfitted for the task and painted yellow, in a move believed to have been taken to ensure the train could be more easily spotted during nighttime work. As daytime ...

Tokyo, March 5 (Jiji Press)--East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, has said that it will start developing a new bullet train series, E10, for the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, which links Tokyo and the ...

This photo shows a test run of a coupled Tohoku Shinkansen Line bullet train service in JR Morioka Station, Iwate Prefecture, on March 12, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Suspended coupled bullet ...

On the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines, all seats on the N700 series bullet trains have been ... Smokers pay 16.4 yen ($0.11) per pack, or 0.82 yen per cigarette, in the special tobacco ...

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...