The Shinkansen is the world fastest and most efficient high-speed rail system, boasting average speeds of well over 200 km/h ...

The Keihan Holdings president also revealed a plan to partially automate train operations to cope with a labor shortage at ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.

Faced with a looming labor shortage and a trend for more people to buy food before boarding the train, on-board snack cart services between the cities of Tokyo and Osaka will reach the end of the ...

Japan is about to unleash the fastest train the world has ever seen - the Superconducting Maglev, or SCMaglev. Capable of hitting a jaw-dropping 503 km/h, it will shrink the journey from Tokyo to ...