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

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In a country famous for punctuality—where the Shinkansen runs on a schedule measured in seconds—there is one bullet train in Japan that appears on no public timetable. It is a phantom on the charts, a ...

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 ...

TOKYO – JR Central has rescheduled trials to use artificial intelligence to analyse passenger footage from security cameras on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains. The trials, originally planned for ...

Visiting Tokyo for the first time can feel like stepping into the future and the past at once. This vast, ever-shifting metropolis is all about contrasts: centuries-old shrines tucked beside glass ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan High Speed Rail has unveiled images of its new N700ST trains, with an exterior design similar to the first-generation 700T. Twelve trainsets were procured in May 2023 ...

A bullet train in Japan came to a sudden halt on Wednesday after a meter-long snake climbed a power pole and short-circuited the electric supply. The bizarre incident took place at around 5:25 pm ...

One of Japan's busiest bullet train lines came to a halt after a snake tangled itself in a power line, causing a power outage. Tokaido Shinkansen trains running between Tokyo and Osaka were suspended ...