NAGOYA—Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) plans to add luxurious, semi-private seating areas to the Tokaido Shinkansen by ...

Sadly, after eight years of service, the Hello Kitty Shinkansen will cease operations on Sunday May 17 2026. To celebrate its ...

Tokyo Station opened in 1914 with four tracks and has grown into a labyrinthine hub serving 1.1 million passengers a day — and it's not even Japan's busiest station, which tells you something about ...

Journeying through Shinkansen offers an unforgettable look at one of the fastest and most efficient rail networks in the ...

Japan’s Hitachi Rail and Toshiba have officially unveiled Taiwan’s next-generation high-speed train, based on the advanced N700S Shinkansen platform. The new bullet train, called the N700ST, will ...

The bullet train had carried around one million passengers since its debut in June 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, said Thursday that four N700S series shinkansen trains that are set to be used also for the inspection of related equipment will be named Dr. S. JR Central also ...

In a conference room in the Central Japan Railway Co.'s high-rise headquarters, Kenji Hagihara, a public relations manager, pauses in his telling of the story of Japan's high-speed rail system and ...

Development of the next-generation Shinkansen is proceeding in earnest. East Japan Railway Company has begun developing trial railway cars that will travel at 360 kilometers per hour, the fastest in ...

If you’re travelling in Japan by bullet train for business purposes and want to get some work done along the way, many people opt for the Green Car option, a premium carriage with reserved seating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's role in the global political economy. Japan is difficult territory for high speed trains. The mountainous ...