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Newer stations on Shinkansen lines across Japan are speeding to the head of the line in popularity among passengers for a ...
Japan’s Shinkansen “bullet trains” have been running for six decades. Can their success at home be replicated when exported to overseas markets? Much depends on their technical merits. A ...
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177 MPH Shinkansen Flyby at Odawara Station

Witness Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen as it flies past Odawara Station at 177 MPH (285 km/h). This video captures the sheer ...
The original Shinkansen linked Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, and since then the network has grown to span Japan from Kyūshū to Hokkaidō, with its trains moving at ever-increasing speeds.
Join me on a smooth and speedy ride aboard Japan’s busiest bullet train line - the Tokaido Shinkansen. Today we’re traveling from Odawara to Tokyo on Kodama 822, operated by the sleek N700A Series Set ...
The Shinkansen network connects the Tokyo metropolitan area to various regions of the country, serving approximately 14 million passengers every day, according to the East Japan Rail Company.
The Japanese government has agreed to introduce E10 Shinkansen trains in India, with its introduction in the 508-km-long ...
The Tokaido Shinkansen connecting Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations marked the world’s first high-speed rail service. Over the decades, the bullet train's top speed has increased from 210 kph to 320 ...
The Shinkansen, as the speedy train network is known in Japan, is not considered futuristic, fancy or for the elite, as some critics of California's high-speed rail plans have scoffed. Rather, it ...
East Japan Railway, or JR East, said Wednesday that it will suspend some services on the Yamagata Shinkansen train line, following malfunctions found on E8 series Shinkansen trains. The railway ...
Shinkansen at 50: fast track to the future On the 50th anniversary of the iconic bullet train's inaugural run, we examine how developers turned an ambitious dream into a high-tech reality ...
PM Modi’s visit will reportedly include a tour of the Miyagi Prefecture plant, where the E10 prototype is being developed, ...