East Japan Railway Co. is developing a next-generation bullet train for the Tohoku Shinkansen Line, focused on improving safety and passenger experience, with plans for a fiscal 2030 launch.

Sapporo – Unexpected construction delays and a tight labor market have made finishing the Hokkaido Shinkansen route to Sapporo by the end of the 2030 fiscal year problematic, although officials ...

SAPPORO -- The 67th annual ... including a 3D projection mapping show on a snow sculpture of a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train ahead of the scheduled launch on March 26. ...

Japan's Alpha-X next-generation Shinkansen on Oct. 27 smashed all speed records to date by bullet trains running commercially, hitting a top speed of 382 kph in a test run.

The Shinkansen, Japan's high-speed intercity railway network, is often touted as the gold standard for high-speed rail.

Eventual plans are for the shinkansen to reach Sapporo, Hokkaido’s capital and Japan's fifth largest city, by 2030. The long lead time is largely attributed to work boring tunnels through the ...

Morioka in northern Iwate Prefecture — ranked second in the world on the New York Times “52 Places to Go in 2023” — would have taken six hours to visit from Tokyo in 1982, before the Tohoku Shinkansen ...

The Japanese government is set to postpone its plan to extend the Hokkaido shinkansen (bullet train) line to Sapporo by the spring of 2031 amid delays in construction and the city's plan to abandon ...

The original Shinkansen linked Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, and since then the network has grown to span Japan from Kyūshū to Hokkaidō, with its trains moving at ever-increasing speeds.

Today, the Shinkansen travels at up to 285kmh, with a ride from Tokyo to Osaka taking just about two hours. The inauguration ceremony for Japan's first bullet train service, the Tokaido Shinkansen ...