The incident happened on Japan’s Shinkansen network, a rail system that moves hundreds of thousands of passengers every day with near-military precision. A train arrived 35 seconds behind schedule, ...

JR West signed a partnership agreement with ANA and JAL each to jointly develop wide-area travel service combined by railway ...

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 ...

Riding public transport in Japan is an experience unlike almost anywhere else in the world. The Japanese train system is renowned throughout the world for its speed, efficiency, and punctuality. But ...

In a country famous for punctuality—where the Shinkansen runs on a schedule measured in seconds—there is one bullet train in Japan that appears on no public timetable. It is a phantom on the charts, a ...

All passengers were evacuated from the Tokyo-bound train. At JR Hamamatsu Station in Shizuoka Prefecture, a Tokaido Shinkansen Line train was stopped due to the release of bear repellent spray onboard ...

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West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) will integrate data from N-net, a new submarine observation network in the Nankai Trough’s ...