Multiple travel alerts have been issued to British citizens after Russia ’s Far East was rattled by an 8.8-magnitude ...

Newer stations on Shinkansen lines across Japan are speeding to the head of the line in popularity among passengers for a ...

Witness Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen as it flies past Odawara Station at 177 MPH (285 km/h). This video captures the sheer ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.

When the driver of a high-speed Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations felt the urgent call of nature, he left his post rather than making a mess.

The Shinkansen network connects the Tokyo metropolitan area to various regions of the country, serving approximately 14 million passengers every day, according to the East Japan Rail Company.

Join me on a smooth and speedy ride aboard Japan’s busiest bullet train line - the Tokaido Shinkansen. Today we’re traveling from Odawara to Tokyo on Kodama 822, operated by the sleek N700A Series Set ...

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor will become the launch site for Japan's next-generation E10 Shinkansen bullet trains. The Indian Ministry of Railways announced on Monday that the E10 ...

The Shinkansen, as the speedy train network is known in Japan, is not considered futuristic, fancy or for the elite, as some critics of California's high-speed rail plans have scoffed. Rather, it ...

The term “shinkansen” literally means “new trunk line”: symbolically, it lay at the very centre of the huge reconstruction effort. All previous railways were designed to serve regions.

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.