Join the BBC's Paul Carter in Tokyo as he marks 60 years of the iconic Shinkansen, better known as the bullet train. With 6.8 billion passengers and delays averaging just one minute, Paul ...

I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but ...

Power car, Shinkansen Leading Car 22-141, 'bullet train', built by West Japan Railways, 1976, withdrawn from service in October 2000. Length 82'; width 11' 8"; height 14' 6 1/2". Power car, Shinkansen ...

Brits waiting on chilly, wet railway platforms in the middle of winter for another late arrival may wish the UK could be more like Japan. With its amazing Shinkansen line seeing trains hurtling ...

All smoking rooms were abolished on the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu Shinkansen lines on March 16, meaning that smoking is no longer allowed on any bullet train nationwide. Smoking had already been ...

Indian Railways is all set to revolutionise the Indian transportation sector with the country’s first-ever Shinkansen bullet trains connecting Mumbai to Ahmedabad, extending for 508 kilometres.

A bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line themed after Tokyo DisneySea's "Fantasy Springs" is shown to the media in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Monday. The train, adorned with characters ...

This photo taken on Feb. 17, 2025, shows a shinkansen bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line themed after Tokyo DisneySea's "Fantasy Springs" in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo ...

The latest Shinkansen is the N700S Series, and the name should give away that this is an evolutionary rather than ...

the Indian Railways announced that Vande Bharat trains will run on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor until the arrival of the Japanese Shinkansen trains. At a time the tender for ...