Passengers who were on the same platform at JR Tokyo Station 60 years ago got a sense of deja vu when seeing off a departing ...

Passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line willing to pay more for privacy can travel in comfort and style in their own compartments starting from fall as they did decades ago. Central Japan Railway Co ...

A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a suit got off. In the evening of Aug. 9, the bullet train bound for Hakata, ...

Speaking of Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's aorta. It is an indispensable existence that not only businessmen who move between Tokyo and Nagoya / Osaka, but also everyone uses it. A power outage occurred ...

Semiprivate booths with luxurious seats will be introduced on shinkansen bullet trains connecting Tokyo and western Japan by March 2028, the operator said Wednesday, citing expected demand from ...

The announcement that the Tokaido Shinkansen (bullet train) will be delayed due to snow happens fairly often, even when it’s sunny in Tokyo or Osaka. When such delays occur, there is often snow in a ...

Central Japan Railway Co (JR Tokai) has applied to the transport ministry for approval to increase the speed of trains on the Tokaido shinkansen line from 2015. JR Tokai President Yoshiomi Yamada made ...

[UPDATE, Aug 16, 3.20pm] JR announced that it has resumed services for Sanyo Shinkansen running between Hakata (in Fukuoka) and Shin-Osaka, and Tokaido Shinkansen running between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka.

TOKYO -- Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) on May 24 conducted an evacuation drill here for foreign passengers supposing a malfunctioning and stranded Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train. The drill ...