After nearly a decade of negotiations, the Shizuoka prefectural government and Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) have reached an agreement regarding environmental issues in a construction area for ...

The Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev train now appears to be on track to begin operations in the 2030s. The Shizuoka prefectural ...

The much-ballyhooed magnetic levitation train line project linking Tokyo with Nagoya has been stuck in limbo since Shizuoka ...

A prefectural government panel in central Japan has approved measures presented by a major railway operator to address the ...

JR Central was originally scheduled to open in 2027, but there is a strong possibility that it will be after 2029. The reason is that Shizuoka Prefecture has not agreed to start construction within ...

The resignation of Shizuoka Prefecture's governor has raised the possibility of a successor who might greenlight the construction of a tunnel through the prefecture for Central Japan Railway's (JR ...

NAGOYA—Soft ground in Aichi Prefecture will delay completion of a tunnel for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line by more than five years to the end of January 2030. The soft ground ...

Japan’s shinkansen is already incredibly fast; they don’t call it the “bullet train” for nothing, after all. But even with some shinkansen trains reaching speeds of 320 kilometers per hour, Japan Rail ...

Central Japan Railway President Shunsuke Niwa has stressed that the company will continue promoting the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen, the high-speed magnetic levitation train line that has ...

In this video, I experience the world's cheapest first class bullet train seat on the fastest commercial train known for its ...