On April 12, JR West launched the “One Piece Shinkansen,” a collaboration with the popular manga and anime series, running on the San’yō Shinkansen line between Shin-Osaka and Hakata.

This place is where the Tokaido road and the Nakasendo road, which connected various parts of Japan, split. It was a post town with many inns. A procession of famous historical figures passing ...

The service disruption occurred on the Tokaido Shinkansen line, which also stops at Kyoto and Nagoya, and is considered the most popular and busiest route. The snake is thought to have become ...

The outage disrupted the Tokaido Shinkansen route connecting Tokyo and Osaka. The power wasn't fully restored until after 7 pm, so trains were delayed for more than an hour. The passengers were ...

The 39-inch serpent tangled itself on an overhead power line, electrocuting itself and causing delays of over an hour and a half, the operator said.

Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage, the operator ...

The Tokaido Shinkansen service was resumed at around 7 p.m. after it was briefly suspended between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations in the westbound direction and between Shin-Osaka and Hamamatsu ...

The recently retired T4 edition of the bullet train was in service for about 24 years on the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines between Tokyo and Hakata in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. No ...

The Sanyo Shinkansen Line operations between Osaka and Fukuoka prefectures were suspended from around 5:50 p.m. after workers found a body part while inspecting tracks between Fukuyama and ...

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To him, as with many Japanese, the Shinkansen – as the trains are called in Japan – symbolise the nation’s efforts to become “top-rate,” superfast, precise, orderly and on time. “It’s so ...