Partially completed Yamanote Line station, designed by Kengo Kuma, unveiled to media
A new station being built on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed. The station, which has yet to be named but will be located between the current Shinagawa and Tamachi stops, will ...
Shiga man faces attempted murder charge for shoving woman on crowded Kobe train platform
A 53-year-old man is held on suspicion of trying to kill a woman by pushing her on a crowded platform at JR Sannomiya Station.
JR Yokohama Station, named by railway fans as "Japan's Sagrada Familia" after a Spanish cathedral for constantly being under construction, will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Saturday. According to East Japan Railway Co., the original Yokohama Station opened in 1872 when the nation's first railway ...
Tokyo Station will become this week a sister station of Hsinchu Station in northwestern Taiwan. Designed by the leading Japanese architects of the time, Tokyo Station was the creation of Kingo Tatsuno and opened for service in December 1914. Hsinchu Station, designed by Tsumunaga Matsugasaki, ...
In an attempt to lure romantically inclined visitors, the operator of a remote railway station in Tottori Prefecture held an event Sunday marking the train stop's love-themed renovation. The walls and roof of Koiyamagata Station — one of the nation's four stations whose names contain ...
New connection expedites Saitama-Yokohama route
Tokyo's bustling Shibuya Station is going through yet another change: Starting Saturday, the Tokyu Toyoko Line and the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line will be directly connected, enabling passengers to travel between Saitama and Yokohama without changing trains. "There will be a main artery (connecting Saitama ...
