“The Japan rail system has taken very significant steps to become as prepared as possible, especially with their high-speed rail network,” she said. Yuichiro Tanaka, deputy director of the ...

The Japanese rail system is renowned for being the fastest and most punctual in the world. Nonetheless, recently, a Shinkansen train leaving Tokyo experienced an unprecedented delay.

The latest example comes from Japan, where a new train station will be built in just six hours. To be clear, Hatsushima Station isn't some ambitious multi-story building, but a small and simple ...

The Japan News says the locomotive company will replace the aging Hatsushima Station along the Kisei Line in Arita. READ: AI will run world’s largest high-speed train system JR West chose ...

Luxury rail travel has always carried an air of nostalgia, a lingering connection to a time when the world moved at a slower, more deliberate pace. In Japan, where the shinkansen has redefined ...

Japan will soon open the world's first 3D-printed train station, a groundbreaking achievement that will only take six hours to assemble. The 3D printing company Serendix, chosen for the project ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Three decades since Shizue Takahashi's husband and a dozen others were killed with a nerve agent on Tokyo's ...

A bullet train made an emergency stop near a station in Tokyo on Thursday after two cars decoupled, leading to a three-hour suspension of bullet train services in eastern Japan and raising safety ...

My husband and I have talked about going to Japan for years ... Our two tickets aboard the Kagayaki train from Tokyo to Nagano cost 34,480 yen, or about $230. Standard seats would've been closer ...

Shinkansen can stop significantly faster and more safely when an earthquake strikes thanks to a new tremor detection and alarm system ... on Dec. 5 by East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) and the ...

with local residents and rail enthusiasts bidding farewell to the easternmost train station in Japan. The unstaffed station in the city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, was opened in 1961 on the Nemuro Main ...

SYDNEY -- As Australia revisits the idea of building a high-speed rail link, Masafumi Shukuri, who chairs an industry group that promotes Japan's shinkansen bullet trains, expressed hopes of ...