Trips on Japan's new, champagne-gold coloured Shiki-shima train have already sold out until March 2018 WITH a long weekend on the horizon, many of us will be girding our loins to join the thousands of ...

Since the launch of its first bullet train in October 1964, Japan has been widely regarded as a frontrunner in high-quality rail travel. Over half a century later, the Shinkansen remains an icon of ...

Sitting beneath a contemporary chandelier, I sipped a glass of chilled white Japanese wine as a bowing waitress placed a dish before me – an artful composition of delicate sea eel with strips of ...

Now here's what it really means to travel in style. Equipped with a full bar, two-storey suites, and bathtubs made from cypress trees, JR East's Shiki-Shima luxury sleeper train might just be the ...

Japan’s Shiki-shima, the new 10-car sleeper train that embarked on its inaugural voyage last week, is an exercise in luxury travel on wheels. From its champagne-gold exterior, opulent suites, Michelin ...

Danielle Demetriou moved from London to Japan in 2007. After 15 years in Tokyo, she now lives in the old kimono textile district of Kyoto. She writes about Japanese culture, design and architecture ...