Donna Burke has the most famous voice you've never heard of. The Australian expat first moved to Japan in the 1990s, hoping ...

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 ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

Central Japan Railway Co. and Sekisui Chemical have revealed plans to deploy flexible perovskite-based PV systems along the ...

Business travelers, tourists and countless others were left stranded by the suspension of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line from the morning of July 22 due to a collision of maintenance vehicles.

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 ...

Disney-themed bullet trains adorned with characters from hit films such as "Frozen" will run on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka from Feb. 21 for a limited time, the operators of ...

(Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Central Japan Railway Co. plans to test a pet-friendly car on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's busiest bullet train line linking Tokyo and Osaka, allowing passengers 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 plans to test a pet-friendly car on the Tokaido Shinkansen, Japan's busiest bullet train line linking Tokyo and Osaka, allowing passengers to travel without putting their dogs ...