On the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines, all seats on the N700 series bullet trains have been nonsmoking since their introduction in 2007, as on a subsequent model. But smoking rooms outside ...
Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines to abolish smoking rooms. The flagship N700-series trains that currently service the three lines have three smoking rooms in the deck areas on the 16-car version ...
Since its debut in 1964, the Shinkansen has grown from a single line connecting Tokyo and Osaka to lines linking all parts of the country. These days, the BBC reports that one bullet train leaves ...
With two projects underway, business, labor and government leaders see the dawn of a new industry that “could be a very ...
When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...
This ravishing historical drama became a sensation upon its release in 2020. Based on the beloved book series by Julia Quinn, Bridgerton takes the refined elegance of Regency-era London and ...
05:00 The nose of the Series E6 is 13 meters long, allowing it to achieve a maximum speed of 320 kilometers per hour.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five minutes before its scheduled departure at 6.16am, the Hokuriku Shinkansen pulls into Tokyo Station ...
Organizers of Saturday's adrenaline-filled trip, less than two weeks before Halloween, touted it as the "world's first haunted house experience on a running shinkansen." Aboard a chartered car of ...
When the Shinkansen started running 60 years ago, it took four hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka. Now, it takes less than two and a half hours. When the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, hailed as a ...
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