Right on schedule, the sleek white train with a blue streak and a bullet-shaped head pierced the late-morning mist and ...
In the first fifteen years following the conclusion of the Second World War, the Japanese domestic air transportation ...
Japan’s latest Shinkansen bullet train, the E8, boasts a stunning cabin, faster travel times and substantial PaxEx ...
A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a ...
In the six decades since that first train, the word Shinkansen – meaning “new trunk line” – has become an internationally recognized byword for speed, travel efficiency and modernity.
When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...