The Tokaido Shinkansen connecting Tokyo and Shin-Osaka ... which adhered to the underside and then fell onto the tracks, displacing ballast and damaging equipment and windows.

The amazing line sees trains hurtling along at speeds up to 177mph, and is said to be the world's most punctual high-speed train.

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 ...

The Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen Lines resumed operations ... outage appears to be a train entering a section of the tracks where overhead wires were sagging for an unknown reason ...

So, on a recent trip to Japan, I was excited to book a journey on the country's famous Shinkansen, a bullet train that can reach top speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour. My one-way ticket was ...

The two Doctor Yellow trains, T4 and T5 editions, have respectively traveled along the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines spanning Tokyo ... equipment that can fulfill the role of checking tracks and ...

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

JR East says the power outage was caused by the failure of an electrical cable above the Shinkansen track in Saitama City near Tokyo at around 10 a.m. Tuesday. Four bullet trains ground to a halt ...

It currently spans 3,000km of track. The original and most famous Shinkansen line is the Tokaido line, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, the country's three largest metropolitan areas.

Japan's eye-catching yellow Shinkansen, affectionately known as "Doctor Yellow," will be retired in coming years due to their age and condition. The diagnostic trains, which are based on the 700 ...

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The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines arrives at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital after making its final run on Jan. 29 ...