A blink and you will miss it test ride on the maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line offers some idea ... a five-car setup comprising the L0 series train that has been used since 2013 for test operations ...

When it enters service, the Maglev Chuo Shinkansen will be the world's fastest bullet train. A test run in 2015 already set a world record by clocking 603 kilometers per hour. It will link the ...

Currently, the fastest bullet train is the E5 and E6 Series running in the Tohoku region at 320 kph. The Maglev Chuo Shinkansen L0 Series, which is now under construction between Tokyo’s ...

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) revealed on March 18 that a driver had been caught using a smartphone while operating a ...

22:55 This effectively means the train is pulled forward by magnetic attraction while being repelled from behind at the same time. When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 ...

Power car, Shinkansen Leading Car 22-141, 'bullet train', built by West Japan Railways, 1976, withdrawn from service in October 2000. Length 82'; width 11' 8"; height 14' 6 1/2". Power car, Shinkansen ...

East Japan Railway, or JR East, has said that it will start developing a new bullet train series, E10, for the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, which links Tokyo and the Tohoku region. The first train from ...

Join the BBC's Paul Carter in Tokyo as he marks 60 years of the iconic Shinkansen, better known as the bullet train. With 6.8 billion passengers and delays averaging just one minute, Paul ...

So it’s really refreshing that for its latest Japan-produced project, Netflix has gone with a title that’s lets you know what the movie is about while still being positively pithy: "Bullet Train ...

My husband and I paid $230 for Gran Class tickets on the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan. On our way from Tokyo to Nagano, we enjoyed complimentary snacks and drinks. Overall, we thought the ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All bullet train services on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeast Japan were halted for around two hours on Monday after a person entered the tracks and was hit by a ...