Back in 2001, East Japan Railway Company/JR East revolutionized train travel in Japan when they launched the Suica system. Instead of having to hunt for your destination on a map posted on the wall in order to determine the fare,

Tourists visiting Japan should consider that the cultural norms may be very different than what they're used to back home, especially when riding the metro.

The 2005 accident in Hyogo Prefecture left 106 passengers and the train driver dead and some 560 others injured.

A snowplow train operated by the streetcar service in Hakodate City in northern Japan's Hokkaido made a trial run on Thursday ahead of the full-blown winter.

A railway company employee, aspiring to be a train driver, maneuvered trains with passengers onboard for a total of 16 minutes witho