Each day nearly a quarter of a million passengers ride the Tokaido Shinkansen line, which stretches from Tokyo past Mount Fuji to Hakata around five hours away. One top-speed Nozomi train arrives ...

Yamanashi Prefecture has abandoned plans for a Mount Fuji railway line and is instead ... to coincide with the opening of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev train line. Yamanashi Prefecture might ...

The mountainous countryside makes for steep gradients and lots of curves. The Shinkansen trains are so fast that booming in and out of tunnels can create serious turbulence. Running through some ...

Approaching Typhoon No. 10 is likely to cause severe disruptions to Shinkansen services when it makes landfall around Aug. 27, train operators said. At noon on Aug. 24, it was moving near the ...

Travelling on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen Line, passengers are gifted an extraordinary glimpse of Mount Fuji. Japan’s tallest mountain, this volcano is famous for its snow-capped peak and ...

The iconic "Doctor Yellow" train belonging to Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, arrived at Tokyo Station on Wednesday after completing its final inspection of tracks on the Tokaido Shinkansen ...

As part of the service, shinkansen cars will be chartered to allow passengers to release their dogs from cages and move around inside the cars with the pets. "We'd like to create new demand ...