As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer? As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote ...

The 39-inch serpent tangled itself on an overhead power line, electrocuting itself and causing delays of over an hour and a ...

But inside its train station awaits one of Japan’s most curious treasures. A spectacle to get the hearts of rail fans racing, it happens 17 times a day, and there is always a crowd waiting at ...

Two seasoned trip planners on how to best tour the Golden Route through five cities, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

Signage for train destinations ... and Hiroshi Nakano.) ***Examples of destination signs from major railway companies based on responses obtained from each company** JR East: Japanese and English ...

TOKYO — The high-speed bullet train says Japan as much as Godzilla, sushi and Mount Fuji. And it takes center stage in Shinji Higuchi’s new film, “Bullet Train Explosion,” which premiered ...

Netflix Japan is making a bold statement with its upcoming release “Bullet Train Explosion,” a reboot of the 1975 classic “Bullet Train.” The film, which premieres April 23, marks a ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding ...

Higuchi, the director of the 2016 “Shin Godzilla” (or “New Godzilla,”) has reimagined the 1975 Japanese film “The Bullet Train,” which has the same premise: A bomb will go off if the ...