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 ...

The new Class N700S Shinkansen runs on the Nishi Kyushu line. For many travellers to Japan, a trip on a Shinkansen, or bullet train, is an adventure in itself.

LONDON, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — 2024 marks 60 years since the first generation ‘Series 0’ Shinkansen, or ‘bullet train’, entered into service on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen line and ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen train line is one of the busiest in Japan. It connects three big cities: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, with more than 370 trains carrying about 4.3 lakh people every day.

Services on three Shinkansen lines in central and eastern Japan were suspended on Jan. 23 after a power outage occurred, triggered by loose overhead wires, forcing many passengers to walk to stations.

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.

An extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line connecting Kanazawa and Tsuruga in central Japan opened on Saturday, establishing bullet train services in Fukui Prefecture for the first time and carrying ...

The Tohoku Shinkansen line stopped to conduct a train inspection between Ueno and Omiya Stations on Thursday (March 6) morning after the train cars decoupled and came to a halt, according to JR East.

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A bullet train hit a bear on Saturday afternoon, causing delays to some services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeastern Japan ...

The first Shinkansen line opened on October 1, 1960, with new rails built to accommodate the futuristic-looking trains at a combined cost of about £9.3billion (¥1.8trillion).

For the first time, the interior of the East Japan Railway Company's new E10 Shinkansen train – one of the country's legendary bullet trains – has been shaped by a non-Japanese designer. Overseeing ...