With an introduction by Prof Roderick Smith of Imperial College, London, If There Were No Shinkansen is the work of former ...

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 ...

When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...

Japan’s Shinkansen is sleek ... just days ahead of the opening of the Tokyo Olympics – that Japan made rail history as it unveiled to the world its ground-breaking reimagining of trains ...

Fukui prefecture has four stations on the extended Shinkansen line – Awara Onsen Station ... Tourists keen to learn more ...

Organizers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the "world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen." Aboard a chartered car of ...

After the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line opened ... The new route, however, is not the longest one-way trip in Japan’s history of train travel. Travel writer Shunzo Miyawaki once wrote in a ...

To compile the list of the 20 countries with the most inventions throughout history, we consulted reputable ... The bullet train, or Shinkansen, is a prime example, offering high-speed and ...

A Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this file photo. (Mainichi/Kenji Yoneda) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train ...

California has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s ...

(Kyodo) SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A Disney-themed shinkansen bullet train has begun operation for a limited time, as part of a collaboration between East Japan Railway Co. and Oriental Land Co., the ...

TOKYO (Bernama-Kyodo): Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six hours, affecting about 139,300 people, Kyodo News ...