Trip.com will begin selling Shinkansen tickets in partnership with four JR companies, offering purchase opportunities to ...

Trip.com has partnered with East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company and Kyushu Railway Company to offer Shinkansen ticket sales to international ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

JR East, will launch a new online booking system for Shinkansen ‘JRE GO, which allows a user to complete a booking as little ...

About 90% of the 178-mile line to Nagoya will be in tunnels. Government permission to proceed with construction was granted in 2011. Construction is expected to cost over ¥9 trillion Japanese yen ...

Trip.com, a global online travel service provider, has partnered with East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company, and Kyushu Railway Company to launch the ...

KAWASAKI--A section of a tunnel for a magnetic-levitation bullet train service that is under construction 90 meters below ground was shown to the media on Jan. 15. The Chuo Shinkansen Line, which is ...

Prefectural officials have defended the plan to fully subsidize one-way fares for foreign tourists as a necessary bet on ...

Kagoshima plans to offer free Shinkansen tickets from Fukuoka to boost tourism in Japan, targeting select international travellers.

In a conference room in the Central Japan Railway Co.'s high-rise headquarters, Kenji Hagihara, a public relations manager, pauses in his telling of the story of Japan's high-speed rail system and ...

Development of the next-generation Shinkansen is proceeding in earnest. East Japan Railway Company has begun developing trial railway cars that will travel at 360 kilometers per hour, the fastest in ...