Newer stations on Shinkansen lines across Japan are speeding to the head of the line in popularity among passengers for a variety of reasons, according to a recent survey. Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) suspended operations of coupled Shinkansen following a decoupling mishap on March 6 in Tokyo ...

The new Kyoto Railway Museum showcases nearly 150 years of train travel in Japan, from early steam locomotives to the ultramodern Shinkansen bullet trains. Here's a full tour. Kyoto is best known for ...

Consortium workers manipulated a measuring instrument during tests to gauge the amount of water in the concrete used for a ...

A panel of the ruling parties that has been reviewing an extension plan for the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line beyond Tsuruga in ...

Free wifi, beautiful bento meals and spectacular window views – Japan’s shinkansen are second to none when it comes to travelling in ease and comfort. These bullet trains are notoriously fast and can ...

In a country famous for punctuality—where the Shinkansen runs on a schedule measured in seconds—there is one bullet train in Japan that appears on no public timetable. It is a phantom on the charts, a ...

A Railway Ministry official said India opted for an indigenous bullet train and an international signalling system after ...

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project progresses, with Japan's E10 Shinkansen trains expected by 2030 and operations ...

Little did India imagine that the Shinkansen high-speed rail network launched in Tokyo in 1964 would one day carry a million passengers a day. Even farther woul ...

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 the ...

India, July 18 -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi recently visited India on an official bilateral trip, marking a new ...