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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

TSURUGA, Fukui Prefecture--Local residents and railway enthusiasts were excited to see the first bullet train travel through the prefecture in a test run on the newly extended Hokuriku Shinkansen Line ...

(CNN) — In Japan, finding a true hidden gem seems harder than ever. In recent years, the cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka have become staples for most international tourists who visit. But the ...

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 ...

An era came to an end last October, as the Tokaido shinkansen ended in-car sales of food and beverages. According to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tokai), which operates the bullet train line ...