Kyushu Railway Co. said Wednesday it will install security cameras in its shinkansen running in Kyushu beginning in November to enhance security ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The railway will introduce the cameras in passenger cabins and the decks of the 800 ...
East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday that it will introduce a 10-car test train, dubbed ALFA-X, in spring 2019 with the aim of developing a next-generation shinkansen model. The company hopes to achieve a maximum operating speed of 360 kph for the new shinkansen. ALFA-X stands ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arranging to visit India in late September to attend a ceremony for a high-speed rail link using Japanese bullet-train technology, government sources said Wednesday. During the visit, Abe is expected to serve as "top salesman" for the adoption of shinkansen ...
Shinkansen services resumed normal operations Thursday morning following wide disruptions due to a Wednesday power outage that affected at least 50,000 passengers, including 1,500 people who stayed in train cars overnight. According to JR Tokai and JR West, the outage, which began at around 7:55 ...
An elderly man is arrested after allegedly setting a fire on a shinkansen traveling through Okayama Prefecture.
East Japan Railway Co. will install a prayer room at Tokyo Station in response to an increase in Muslim visitors to Japan, mainly from Southeast Asian nations. The prayer room, with a floor space of about 8 sq. meters, will be launched on June 5 ...
Hokkaido Railway Co. continues to face a host of challenges to ensure the safety of its Hokkaido Shinkansen Line a year after the bullet train line went into service. The 149-km-long high-speed train line connects Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in the city of Hokuto in Hokkaido and ...
A team of researchers at Shizuoka University is hitching a ride on Japan's bullet train technology, aiming to transmit targeted advertising at high speeds. Using a groundbreaking technique called high-speed suggestive particle mapping (HS-SPAM), the system relies on embedded arrays of microscopic LEDs that flash ...
On Oct. 23, 2004, at 5:56 p.m., the first shinkansen derailment in history occurred when a bullet train en route from Tokyo to Niigata went off the tracks following a powerful earthquake in the Chuetsu region in Niigata Prefecture. Toki No. 325 was cruising at ...
The Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, which connects Honshu and Hokkaido by high-speed train, on Sunday marked its first year of service. Commemorative events were held at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station in Hokuto, near Hakodate, and Shin-Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture. At Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station, a ceremony welcomed the arrival of ...
The last double-decker bullet trains on the Joetsu Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Niigata will be withdrawn from service in a few years, a railway source said Saturday. East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) plans to replace the E4 series, the last remaining two-deck shinkansen, ...
