Sounds exciting and scary too, right? Well, let’s have a look at eight interesting facts about Japan's bullet train: ...

Sixty years after the world's first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along what's been dubbed the "New Golden Route". Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo ...

Part of the brilliance of the bullet train is that it can whisk you out of a city in what feels like no time at all, giving you the freedom to quickly explore off-the-beaten-path corners of Japan.

Japan has one of the world's most reliable railways and is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains A Japanese railway firm has stopped an unusual training drill that required employees to crouch in ...

The iconic image of majestic bullet train blasting past the snowcapped peaks of Mount Fuji has become a symbol of Japan's growth into an economic and technological juggernaut. Over the past half ...

A 22-year-old graduate student said he's grateful for all the work the trains have done to keep Japan's bullet train network safe. "It's a pity because my son loves them," a mother of a 5-year-old ...