Witness Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen as it flies past Odawara Station at 177 MPH (285 km/h). This video captures the sheer ...

Much like an airliner's de-icing protocols, the water jets hosing down bullet trains are intended to promote safety in snowy and icy conditions.

Riding Japan’s famous Bullet Train was an experience that truly lived up to the hype. This journey took us from Osaka to ...

Development of the next-generation Shinkansen is proceeding in earnest. East Japan Railway Company has begun developing trial railway cars that will travel at 360 kilometers per hour, the fastest in ...

Japan’s shinkansen are all fast, which is how they earned their English-language nickname “bullet trains.” But with no numerical limit on speed, there’s always the possibility of getting from point A ...