Experience the luxurious first-class seating of Japan's Shinkansen, one of the world's fastest bullet trains. This journey ...

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The popular express train "Panda Kuroshio," designed with a panda theme, will continue to operate. This train runs between Kyoto, Osaka and Wakayama p･･･ ...

To help people become more familiar with the culture of teahouse districts in the city of Kanazawa, the public was given a ...

Home to some of the most impressive and storied shrines in Japan, many parts of Nikko remain off the beaten path, offering a ...

The Shinkansen — Japanese for “new line” — made its impressive debut in October 1964, a few days before the Tokyo Olympics.

A video of a woman showing different bento boxes that she got for her family’s journey on board Japan’s Shinkansen bullet ...

P5X’s Subway Slammer has quickly gone viral, with the salaryman becoming a goldmine for memes. However, he is based on a real ...

There’s not much shogun-era history left in Japan but Matsumoto, north-west of Tokyo, is a great place to relive samurai rule ...

While China, with a maglev train hitting 650 km/h (404 mph) in just seven seconds, might regard the achievement as cute, it ...

The last express sleeper train that once connected the Japanese capital to the northern prefecture of Hokkaido has pulled ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will introduce a new overnight limited express train set to run between the Tokyo ...