Meanwhile, Japan is building the next generation of high-speed trains, which use magnetic levitation to power passengers past the 300mph mark. Now that really is the future.

So, on a recent trip to Japan, I was excited to book a journey on the country's famous Shinkansen, a bullet train that can reach top speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour. My one-way ticket was ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations across the country every three minutes ...

Japan’s high-speed bullet train services were halted on its busiest line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake became tangled in the overhead wires, causing a power outage. The incident ...

Texans have long been promised a high-speed rail line. Amtrak wants to bring the bullet train to the U.S. sixty years after it started running in Japan. June 2, 2025 ...

From the companies' train schedule update next March, about half of the unisex restrooms on all of their 16-car bullet trains will be made women-only. The changes began to be rolled out the day ...

I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but I got motion sickness. I rode on a Japanese bullet train with top ...

NAGOYA, Japan – Right on schedule, the sleek white train with a blue streak and a bullet-shaped head pierced the late-morning mist and majestically cruised into the station.

During a visit in August, India and Japan will ink the deal for the E10 series of high-speed trains. But investments in ...

The first bullet train, built by Hitachi, began operating on October 1, 1964, between Tokyo and Osaka. If bullet trains are more than one minute behind schedule they are considered officially ...

Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations across the country every three minutes ...

Updated May 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM EDT. Stepping onto a Japanese bullet train feels like taking a trip into the future. The sleek, white cars with blue stripes down the side glide out of stations ...