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 ...

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 ...

A Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on June 17, 2018, in this file photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada) TOKYO (Kyodo ...

Passengers on the Nozomi Shinkansen not wanting to sit next to anyone or hoping to get more space to spread out need not worry much longer. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) will offer a ...

Approaching Typhoon No. 10 is likely to cause severe disruptions to Shinkansen services when it makes landfall around Aug. 27, train operators said. At noon on Aug. 24, it was moving near 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 ...

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 ...

The Disney-themed train will run through June 2025 on the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines linking Tokyo and the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, northern Japan. The 60 Worst Action Movies of All ...

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 ...

Explores the Hokuriku Shinkansen, the most punctual long-distance express train in the world, which takes its passengers to incredibly beautiful places in Japan. The team talk to a wasabi farmer ...