The train journey is heavily oversubscribed and hopeful passengers must enter a lottery to buy tickets. Read more at ...

Training your way across Japan is a travel dream for many. The Land of the Rising Sun promises serene landscapes and a culture and way of life that is unparalleled and beautiful. Luckily, train travel ...

The Shinkansen, Japanese for "bullet train," forever changed transportation in Japan and in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the ...

While many visitors to Japan beeline to the history and hubbub of Kyoto and Tokyo, surprisingly fewer travellers make their way to the region of Kansai: a hinterland of bubbling hot springs, ...

A high speed railway being built by the Central Japan Railway Company is planned to be the fastest in the world when it opens ...

It's usually a serene two-and-a-half-hour ride on Japan's famously efficient bullet train. But the journey quickly descended into a zombie apocalypse, with passengers ...

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Japan's Transport Minister Hiromasa Nakano visited Surat to review India's first ...

The ministers first visited the track construction base at the Surat HSR site, where they observed the advanced J-slab ...