Japan’s Doctor Yellow Shinkansen will vanish from the rails by 2027, making every sighting now a piece of history.

The L0 Series train being developed by Japan currently is likely to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, making it the world’s ...

The melodic chime floated through Tokyo Station just as our Shinkansen slid into view, silent and impossibly smooth, like it was gliding on air. My 10-year-old son, Everest, stood frozen in awe, eyes ...

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of ...

The maglev L0 will transform travel in Japan, completing journeys that once took two and a half hours in just 40 minutes.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It begins as a gentle rumble as you see motion out of the window: that slight lurching forward. With a steady gait ...

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 ...

Need a train station shelter in a hurry? You can now print that. In Arida, Japan, a Japanese architectural firm and 3D-printed house manufacturer partnered with JR-West, a railway network, to build ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

India’s historic high-speed rail project, the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor, has taken a major step forward in ...