These themed trains in Japan include Pikachu, Hello Kitty, dinosaurs, and one specially dedicated to drinking sake.

Add these trains to your bucket list—you won’t want to miss them. Launched in 2018, the Hello Kitty Shinkansen is a high-speed train that brings the iconic Sanrio character to life. The train features ...

Cruises and guided tours can help make planning a trip easier, especially if you’re traveling with kids—but they have ...

Avail and Sanrio announced a new collection of shirts featuring Hello Kitty, Kuromi, and My Melody alongside the Honda logo and Super Cub branding. Avail will start selling these in Japan on April ...

The biggest stretch in Shinji Higuchi’s follow-up to the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train” is that a bureaucracy comes together effectively to try and alleviate a disaster. Following an ...

Set aboard a Shinkansen racing through Japan, it follows a group of passengers trapped in a life-or-death situation when a bomb is discovered on the train, set to explode if the speed drops below ...

Bullet Train Explosion follows a ‘shinkansen’ (bullet train) bound for Tokyo, which soon comes under a bomb threat. The bombs on the train will explode if the train slows below 100 kph ...

John Kleinheinz, a former investment banker, has long been involved in the Texas Central Railway project, which would connect Dallas and Houston using Japanese-made Shinkansen trains. In January ...

For the first time in eight days, coupled runs on the Tohoku, Akita and Yamagata Shinkansen lines resumed on the morning of March 14 after being halted due to a malfunction in Tokyo. An Akita ...

Shinkansen can stop significantly faster and more safely when an earthquake strikes thanks to a new tremor detection and alarm system, according to railway operators and engineers. The time it ...