Japan is famous for rail travel. Whether you’re here as a tourist or a resident, trains are often a part of daily life. There ...

Hirosaki was our last stop in Tohoku, but we still had one city to go on this adventure: Hakodate, just across the Tsugaru ...

The precision of the operation was clear when NPR was invited into the driver’s cab during a Shinkansen ride from Tokyo to Kyoto. The driver followed the progress of the train along a map ...

California has been written off as a woke wasteland. But it’s still inventing the future on a bunch of frontiers nobody’s ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down ...

I sometimes do not take the most straightforward Tokaido Shinkansen along the Pacific coast but take the inland Chuo (East and West) Line route, taking a detour to Matsumoto and the Kiso Valley (see ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

If, as had been the case for pre-Shinkansen railways, monitoring and route designation had been left to each individual station, it would create an immense burden and could have negative impacts ...

Indian Railways, with its impressive 115,000 kilometers of track, boasts the largest railway network in Asia and secures the title of second largest in the world, all administered by one central ...