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

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

A research team in Japan has issued a warning of a potential megaquake that could occur off the country's northern coast. Trench off Hokkaido contains energy that could trigger a 9.0 earthquake ...

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 ...

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 ...

East Japan Railway says it will gradually resume operations of coupled Shinkansen bullet trains from Friday, before having them return to normal schedules on Saturday. The operator has suspended ...

East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has announced the development of the next-generation Tōhoku Shinkansen train, designated as the E10 series. This new model is set to replace the existing E2 ...

TOKYO: East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) has said that its suspension of coupled Shinkansen train services will be extended to Friday (March 14). The suspension follows a serious incident in which ...