Semiprivate booths with luxurious seats will be introduced on shinkansen bullet trains connecting Tokyo and western Japan by March 2028, the operator said Wednesday, citing expected demand from ...

Tokaido Shinkansen opened in 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics and has been setting the operational standard for high-speed rail ...

NAGOYA--Retired catering carts used in Shinkansen will go on sale, targeting a small but dedicated community of nostalgic train buffs willing to fork out 100,000 yen ($676) per unit. The 50 carts up ...

The Shinkansen, Japanese for "bullet train," forever changed transportation in Japan and in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the ...

Japan currently has 10 shinkansen (bullet train) lines to shuttle passengers around Japan at super high speeds, but the busiest by far is the Tokaido Shinkansen, which has been known to operate over ...

A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a suit got off. In the evening of Aug. 9, the bullet train bound for Hakata, ...

Passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line willing to pay more for privacy can travel in comfort and style in their own compartments starting from fall as they did decades ago. Central Japan Railway Co ...

Japan's renowned Shinkansen bullet train network came to an unexpected halt on Wednesday (Apr 30) evening after a snake slithered onto an overhead power line, triggering a power outage that stranded ...

If you enter the departure station / arrival station and scheduled time of the Tokaido Shinkansen on board, you can see the animations in which the scenes and specialties along the railway passing ...

The world’s first high-speed commercial train line, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on Wednesday, was built along the Tokaido, one of the five routes that connected the Japanese hinterland to ...