Tokyo —What's being billed as "the world's most advanced train station" has opened in the western Japanese city of Osaka.Actually a new wing of the existing Osaka Station, eight minutes away via ...

In the more than 60 years since the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s high-speed train service has expanded into a broad network of routes that stretches across ...

OSAKA -- A crack has been found in the undercarriage of an Osaka subway train car, its operator said on Aug. 31. The announcement comes after cracks were found in the undercarriages of Osaka-based ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in ... linking Tokyo and Shin-Osaka was completed in 1964. Trains run at up to 200 ... A map of Japan's high-speed rail lines.

OSAKA--Osaka Metro Co.’s first new subway train since privatization features a futuristic octagonal front face covered by a large sheet of glass with light-emitting diodes embedded in four corners.