Travelers were forced to improvise and find alternate ways to their destinations as the Tokaido Shinkansen Line was partially suspended on July 22, stranding an estimated 250,000 passengers during ...

Japan's eye-catching yellow Shinkansen, affectionately known as "Doctor Yellow," will be retired in coming years due to their age and condition. The diagnostic trains, which are based on the 700 ...

The Northeast Maglev proposal to build a super high speed magnetic levitation train from Washington to New York looks great on a map ... stops on the Tokaido Shinkansen (four of them even on ...

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...

JR Tokai said in a statement that one of the two shared toilets located in odd-numbered cars of the 16-car trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen will be women-only. However, car 11 will be ...

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) canceled all Tokaido Shinkansen services between Tokyo and Nagoya on Aug. 30 due to the heavy rain and strong wind caused by Typhoon No. 10. For the stretch ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen Line began operations on Oct. 1, 1964, just prior to the Tokyo Olympics, with the service at that time dubbed the "dream super limited express." It had a maximum speed of ...