In August 2011, I was fortunate enough to ride on the then brand-new Hayabusa bullet train, which operates on the line ...

A Tohoku Shinkansen bullet train made an emergency stop near Tokyo on Sunday after its safety brakes were automatically ...

Bullet trains may steal their thunder, but these locomotives offer an unrivaled way to see Japan’s most beautiful landscapes.

The July result is a sharp turn from recent trends.

The new E10 Shinkansen model will replace the current E2 and E5 bullet trains when they are retired in 2030, marking the first time a non-Japanese agency has designed Japan's signature mode of ...

A mobile battery briefly caught fire on a moving shinkansen bullet train in central Japan on Friday, but the blaze was ...

Officials from Shikoku gathered in Tokyo on August 21 to rally for shinkansen services to be extended to Japan’s ...

Railways offer comfort, and we all know that. But then, the drawback had been their slow speed, which often overshadowed the ...

Smoke was seen rising from a shinkansen bullet train stopped at Gifu-Hashima Station in Gifu Prefecture on the night of ...

India expects Japan to submit bids for routes other than the one under construction in western India that is set to utilize ...

The Tohoku Shinkansen Line has recently been plagued by decoupling, power failures, an oil leak and other issues. Read more ...