TOKYO: East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) has said that its suspension of coupled Shinkansen train services will be extended to ...

High-speed Shinkansen trains began running between Tokyo and Osaka on Oct 1, 1964, heralding a new era for rail travel as Japan grew into an economic superpower after its World War II defeat.

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 ...

My husband and I have talked about going to ... Eventually, we landed on a Shinkansen line that could take us 138 miles from Tokyo to Nagano, a town an hour's drive from Hakuba, in under two ...