It is still in service as the Kodama, making it the oldest active train in Japan. Currently, the fastest bullet train is the E5 and E6 Series running in the Tohoku region at 320 kph. The Maglev ...

Japan's latest high-speed train is JR ... and when it was introduced in 2011, it was the fastest train in the country. The ...

The top speed of the fastest train on the rails of the Japanese National Railways, what is now Japan Rail, was 110 kilometers an hour. The standard gauge in Japan was 1,067 millimeters ...

Japan is launching a new super-fast train, the JR Tokai. The Wall Street Journal reports that the new train will be able to carry commuters from Tokyo to Nagoya at blinding speed of 300 mph thanks ...

One of Japan’s most popular train apps, Japan Transit Planner is a multilingual platform offering detailed ... Choose from several routes, including the fastest, cheapest, least amount of walking and ...

Japan currently has the fastest train in the world. Elon Musk may dream of a Hyperloop future where we zip through pneumatic tubes from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes. But it's still ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Japan was the first country to build narrow-gauge railways dedicated to high-speed trains. Today it has some of the fastest trains in the world. Here's how Japan ...

The much-ballyhooed magnetic levitation train line project linking Tokyo with ... construction for what could be one of the world’s fastest trains. Central Japan Railway Co.

A Japanese bullet train left one of its doors open while travelling at 280km/h (175mph) on Wednesday. None of the 340 passengers were injured, and the train's operator made an emergency stop when ...

At 500 kilometres an hour, the Maglev could revolutionise rail travel. But it’s also causing plenty of controversy.

Japan has one of the world's most reliable railways and is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains (pictured) A rail company in Japan has apologised after one of its trains departed 20 seconds early.