As compensation, users can now ride the previously excluded Nozomi and Mizuho Shinkansen trains ... have expanded with the extension of Shinkansen lines, and services have improved, such as ...

NAGOYA--The operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line plans to install next-generation, thin solar cells on noise barriers along its tracks. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) expects to use ...

This month, Japan begins saying goodbye to the famous "Doctor Yellow" special bullet trains that have diagnosed faults on the country's high-speed shinkansen lines in some form for around 60 years ...

Central Japan Railway, or JR Central, will launch a pilot service to let pet dogs ride bullet trains with their owners, JR Central President Shunsuke Niwa said in a recent interview. As part of ...

The operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen line also plans a same-day luggage delivery service for guests at Mitsui Fudosan Co. group hotels in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto using “Kodama” trains ...

The first pilot projects will be deployed along the Tokaido Shinkansen line, an area with high solar radiation. “By using flexible solar cells in places where it was previously difficult to ...

Tokyo, Jan. 8 (Jiji Press)--Indian Ambassador to Japan Sibi George has said there are absolutely no issues with Japan over a high-speed railway project using Shinkansen-style bullet trains ...

AKITA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Akita Shinkansen bullet train services in ... was severed when a local train's connection to overhead lines was damaged after being struck by an object Sunday night ...

According to Central Japan Railway (JR Central), the daily number of passengers on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line reached 412,000, the highest on record for the year-end and New Year period.

The logo of West Japan Railway Co. (Mainichi/Miki Hirano) OSAKA -- A passenger on a bullet train that had stopped at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line on Jan. 5 pushed an emergency ...