Thailand refurbishes donated Japanese trains to boost its suburban rail services, aiming to improve transportation efficiency ...

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) will deploy 20 second-hand Japanese KiHa diesel trains for suburban passenger services.

Trench off Hokkaido contains energy that could trigger a 9.0 earthquake According to researchers from Japan's Tohoku and Hokkaido universities and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...

Falling ridership is putting pressure on JR Hokkaido to close underutilized local lines even as it struggles to complete the ...

The luxury sleeper train Cassiopeia, which once connected Tokyo’s Ueno Station with Hokkado’s Sapporo Station, is set to make ...

Japan Railways Group has a number of special rail passes to make train travel cheaper, easier, and by extension, more fun, but one of the most popular, the Seishun 18 Ticket, underwent a number of ...

Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 41-year-old man from Sapporo, Hokkaido, on suspicion of customer harassment after he threatened and spat in the face of a female airline employee at Kansai ...

The opening of the Tohoku Shinkansen in 1982, and its many subsequent extensions and branches, brought the northernmost third of Japan’s main island of Honshu immeasurably closer to Tokyo in travel ...

The opening of the extended section of the Hokkaido Shinkansen line between Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto and Sapporo stations will be delayed until the end of fiscal 2038, according to a report from an expert ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- With the extension of shinkansen bullet train service to Sapporo now delayed until the end of fiscal 2038, communities along the planned link in Hokkaido are fretting over the ...

The Japanese government announced on 8th March that it needs to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan’s northernmost bullet train route. The extension which would have ...

The high-speed E10 Shinkansen train is set to enter service in 2030, replacing existing trains E2 and E5 on the Tohoku route. Studio Tangerine, a design consultancy company based in London ...