The maglev L0 will transform travel in Japan, completing journeys that once took two and a half hours in just 40 minutes.

Join this Japan vlog as you travel from Tokyo to Osaka on Japan’s fastest Shinkansen bullet train, enjoying smooth high-speed ...

The L0 Series train being developed by Japan currently is likely to reach speeds of up to 603.5kmh, making it the world’s ...

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of ...

Torii gates in Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. As exhilarating as a spin on Japan’s famous bullet train might be, whizzing past Mount Fuji and other parts of the countryside, another way to ...

The storm weakened after making landfall as a typhoon, still posed the risk of landslides and floods as it moved at a crawling speed. By Hisako Ueno Yan Zhuang and John Yoon Hisako Ueno reported from ...

The Shinkansen, Japanese for "bullet train," forever changed transportation in Japan and in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the ...

The Shinkansen system, which rolled out in November 1964, reshaped travel across Japan by drastically reducing transit times between cities. The trains, synonymous with speed, safety, and punctuality, ...