East Japan Railway (JR East) started operating a freight-only shinkansen bullet train Monday, transporting goods from Morioka ...

A shinkansen bullet train is seen halted on the tracks in Saitama's Chuo Ward due to a power outage in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Jan. 23, 2024. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama) ...

Shinkansen platforms have become more wheelchair friendly at JR Tokyo Station thanks to improvements reducing the gap between the vehicle and platform, according to Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai ...

Disembarked passengers descend to ground level from an elevated track after a shinkansen bullet train was stopped, near JR Yono-Hommachi Station in Saitama's Chuo Ward on Jan. 23, 2024.

In the more than 60 years since the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s high-speed train service has expanded into a broad network of routes that stretches across the ...

It was a sad day on 31 October last year when Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tokai) ended cart sales on the Tokaido Shinkansen, the popular bullet train line that runs between Tokyo and Osaka and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five minutes before its scheduled departure at 6.16am, the Hokuriku Shinkansen pulls into Tokyo Station — with ...