KYOTO—A railway operator is ferrying tourists through a tunnel of illuminated golden maple leaves in a seasonal nighttime experience. About 280 maple trees line the track on an approximately 250 ...

The city's subway can also come in handy, but its two lines don't have the ... International Airport to Kyoto is to take the JR West Airport Express HARUKA train. The trip takes about 75 minutes ...

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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 ...

Japanese National Railways, now known as Japan Rail, managed to nearly double the speed of its fastest trains with the introduction of the first Shinkansen, or bullet train in English. The ...

Kyoto and beyond, where travelers can eat well before or after their journeys. Lazare restaurant, in the Gare St.-Lazare train station in Paris, has a French comfort-food menu, with Normandy ...