The U.S.'s rail system lags far behind other countries when it comes to both scale and speed, but strides are being made ...

Heavy rain lashed parts of western Japan on Saturday, suspending train services and triggering risks of flooding and ...

Heavy rain canceled a total of 88 Sanyo Shinkansen bullet train services on Saturday and delayed 229 by up to around six ...

A boy in a baseball cap at the front of a line hopped on to a Nozomi shinkansen train just as the last male passenger in a suit got off. In the evening of Aug. 9, the bullet train bound for Hakata ...

Davos to Geneva, Switzerland "After a ski holiday in Davos, I took the scenic train back to Geneva Airport. The snow-covered ...

lulled by the gentle vibration of the train, before arriving in Osaka. Initially, the Nozomi service only ran two round trips a day, but following the opening of the Shinkansen platforms at ...

Japan is famous for rail travel. Whether you’re here as a tourist or a resident, trains are often a part of daily life. There ...

In 1964, Japan launched the Shinkansen, a high-speed train that seemed impossible at the time. This episode covers how ...

The driver only needs to make fine adjustments to then stop the train at the designated spot. The result is that, in principle, the chance of two Shinkansen trains colliding is essentially zero ...

Aboard a chartered car of the shinkansen — the Japanese word for bullet train — were around 40 thrill-seekers, ready to brave an encounter with the living dead between Tokyo and the western ...

Sun Travel's journalists have taken their fare share of train journeys on their travels and here they share their most memorable rail experiences. "Nothing quite beats the Shinkansen bullet train, one ...

From Japan's bullet trains to TGV's swift services, here are the finest and fastest high-speed train routes around the world.