Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a ...

With more time needed to install platform screen doors, the transport ministry views the initiative as an urgent interim ...

Survivors and families of the victims of a 2005 train derailment remembered Saturday the 107 lives lost in the accident in ...

Foreign tourists planning trips to Japan will face higher costs for the Japan Rail Pass starting October 1st. The popular ...

I've never been to Japan, so the design of the railway system isn't something I've given much thought to, but today the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) has announced a rebrand, and it's piqued my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking for a fall getaway in Japan? Train travelers can hop aboard the SL Banetsu Monogatari to see the brilliant fall colors of ...

For centuries, citizens of the Eurasian continent have pondered an affordable and speedy way to traverse the great expanse of tundra separating Europeans from their Asian neighbors. And when the ...

Japan's biggest railway company raised its fares by an average 7.1 percent on Saturday. It is East Japan Railway's first across-the-board fare increase since it was privatized in 1987, apart from ...

Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a passenger carriage will do the trick, albeit for just 17 minutes. On ...