Andy Burgess explores why one company is blasting 257 km of tunnels beneath the Japanese Alps and examines the benefits and ...

Even if you use them every day, there are many surprisingly unknown facts about railways. In the "Railway Trivia" series, I ...

I had some time to kill before my Shinkansen, so I stopped by a beer cafe inside the ticket gates at Shinagawa Station. The ...

In a move that signals a shift in how speed and logistics intersect, Japan has transformed one of its iconic bullet trains into a high-speed cargo carrier. The initiative by East Japan Railway Company ...

The new Kyoto Railway Museum showcases nearly 150 years of train travel in Japan, from early steam locomotives to the ultramodern Shinkansen bullet trains. Here's a full tour. Kyoto is best known for ...

It begins as a gentle rumble as you see motion out of the window: that slight lurching forward. With a steady gait, the train leaves the station, passing a crisscross melange of different city and ...

Since the early 1990s, Tangerine has been one of the pre-eminent independent design consultancies, working across all facets of industrial design, from household products to the technology and ...

According to East Japan Railway, Joetsu Shinkansen services were suspended between Takasaki and Nagaoka stations in the morning from around 5.40am due to a malfunction of the points at Jomo-Kogen ...

When the first line of the Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1960, people working in the global rail industry raised a collective cry of surprise. The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of the ...

Japans Hayabusa Shinkansen can reach speeds of up to 320 kmph while travelling through the Seikan Tunnel, one of the worlds longest undersea railway tunnels. Connecting Honshu with Hokkaido, the 53.85 ...