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 ...

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 ...

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.

There are some exceptions, however. Retired school teacher Kasuga Naoki and a small group of others started the Linear Citizen’s Network Osaka in 2015 to raise awareness about the maglev’s problems.

Running between Kyoto, Nara and Osaka, the Aoniyoshi Sightseeing Limited Express takes passengers on a sightseeing trip through Japan’s historic heartland and birthplace of its culture.

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.