The first-generation Shinkansen train, the 0 series, popular for its “pug nose,” became the first commercially-operated train in the world to run at 210 kph. The 100 series train, equipped with a ...

Editor’s Note: This CNN Travel series is, or was ... to visit this less-traveled part of Japan thanks to a new shinkansen (bullet train) extension that opened earlier this year, connecting ...

A shinkansen bullet train adorned with characters from the popular manga series "One Piece" will start operations in western ...

The new One Piece train is actually the “Sanyo Shinkansen,” a high speed rail train in Japan that first hit the tracks in 1972. As a part of this collaboration, three trains will be adorned with the ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said it expects to resume full operations on the Tohoku Shinkansen ... of a 17-car bullet train in an earthquake last week. More than 100 workers were dispatched ...

When the first line of the Shinkansen opened on October 1, 1960, people working in the global rail industry raised a collective cry of surprise. The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of ...

A Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on June 17, 2018, in this file photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada) TOKYO (Kyodo ...

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New Delhi/IBNS: India is unlikely to import Japan’s Shinkansen, or bullet train, for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) corridor, seven years after the project's launch, Moneycontrol ...

Train buffs are in a frenzy over the prospect of owning a food cart that once graced the aisles of the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. And for a paltry 100,000 yen ($666) each. Shinkansen operator ...