The number of people using the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka during the country's Golden Week holidays was up 5 percent from a year earlier amid booming inbound tourism, the ...

It had a maximum speed of 210 kilometers per hour, connecting Tokyo and Osaka in four hours. The current travel time has shortened to two hours and 21 minutes. The Tokaido Shinkansen Line ...

A Tohoku Shinkansen train was forced to make an emergency stop while traveling through Tokyo after a coupler connecting two parts of the train abruptly detached. The incident occurred around 11:30 ...

Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage, the operator ...