Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl ...

Picture this: a train pulls into the station at 9:47 AM, not 9:46 or 9:48, but exactly on the dot. Passengers board with calm efficiency, no one rushes or shoves, and within minutes the train glides ...

Japan is currently developing the world’s fastest train, the L0 Series, which is a Japanese maglev train being produced and tested by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). This train is ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations across the country every three minutes. The ...

A train arrived 35 seconds behind schedule, and this was enough to prompt the conductor to apologize to every passenger on board, and according to multiple social media posts, issue refunds for their ...

Experience the unique overnight capsule hotel train across Japan, featuring sleeper cars ranging from first-class to capsule ...

Hitachi Rail will manufacture a new train for the Vies fine dining service that Japan’s Seibu Railway is due to introduce in ...

Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture far more accessible to travelers. The coastal Fukui Prefecture is ...

Japan’s trains have earned an almost cult-like status among foreign travelers for being punctual and efficient. Social media users rave about them and many people in Japan take rail operators’ ...

While many visitors to Japan beeline to the history and hubbub of Kyoto and Tokyo, surprisingly fewer travellers make their way to the region of Kansai: a hinterland of bubbling hot springs, ...

East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, has taken the lead in launching a training program aimed at nurturing about 100 foreign workers annually under Japan's specified skilled worker program amid severe ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations across the country every three minutes. The ...