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

Local governments and railway officials are warning that the extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line could lead to the collapse of the nationwide food distribution system. After the bullet train ...

T he government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to tunnel construction ...

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 ...

With the extension of the Tohoku-Hokkaido Shinkansen scheduled to open in the spring of 2031, the company is looking to compete with the airlines, which see around 10 million passengers per year.

The Joetsu Shinkansen line has implemented a system that automatically sprays warm water when it detects snowfall. But the Hokkaido Shinkansen line uses compressed air to blow away snow at switch ...

The disconnection involved the Hayabusa and Komachi high-speed trains on the shinkansen line that links ... referring to JR East and JR Hokkaido, which is the owner of the Hayabusa train cars.

The Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train connects Tokyo ... While carrying cargo from Hokkaido all the way to Osaka, these vessels also called at ports along the way in Hokuriku.