All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

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 ...

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

Heavy rain briefly halted all shinkansen bullet train services between Hakata in southwestern Japan and Tokyo on Saturday ...

There are also systems that will stop trains if a car falls from a bridge over a shinkansen line, for example. In most of the developed world, collision safety measures are required for all trains ...

The Shinkansen network has expanded steadily ... Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia all now operate trains on dedicated lines linking their major cities, competing ...

The diagnostic trains, which are based on the 700 Series, are used on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines to check the ... student said he's grateful for all the work the trains have done ...

“All of InsideJapan’s cultural adventures ... The busiest route in Japan is the Tokaido Shinkansen line which whizzes between the nation’s four biggest cities: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya ...

Travellers to Japan may have picked up on a familiar accent while riding the Shinkansen between Tokyo and the southern island ...

Mighty conglomerates such as Hitachi and Toshiba export billions of dollars worth of trains and equipment all over the world every year. The Shinkansen network has expanded steadily since the 320-mile ...