The new designs were commissioned by the East Japan Railway Company, also known as JR East, and were completed by design studio Tangerine, based in London and Seoul. The Shinkansen will operate on JR ...

As part of a strategic Indo-Japanese partnership, Japan will gift two Shinkansen train sets — one each from the E5 and E3 series — for initial inspection and performance testing.

CHECKING FOR ISSUES. At Tokyo’s Oi Depot, trains that ply the Tokaido Shinkansen line - which began operating more than 60 years ago - wait to undergo maintenance or to be dispatched for service.

The Tokaido Shinkansen train line is one of the busiest in Japan. It connects three big cities: Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, with more than 370 trains carrying about 4.3 lakh people every day.

The bullet trains (known in Japan as Shinkansen, meaning ‘new main line’) have been a Japanese icon since they started operating in 1964, and for me, my trip to Japan wouldn’t have been complete ...

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For the first time, the interior of the East Japan Railway Company's new E10 Shinkansen train – one of the country's legendary bullet trains – has been shaped by a non-Japanese designer. Overseeing ...

As more N700S sets arrive, they will replace the older members of the N700 series, meaning that this will likely be the standard Shinkansen passenger experience for ten to twenty years. Around 50 sets ...

Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains to be tweaked for India’s first Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor - details here. TOI Business Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Dec 23, 2024, 11:10 IST.

“Shinkansen,” meaning “new trunk line,” is a term coined by the now-defunct Japanese National Railways (JNR) to refer to a new major railroad line it planned to build. The term was first used back in ...

A new wonder of the world, the exemplar icon, generically and officially termed ‘super limited expresses’ (chotokkyu), today best known as the bullet train (dangan ressha) and Shinkansen (meaning “new ...

Shinkansen, which means 'new trunk line', has become the symbol of post-World War II Japan and a shining example of speed and efficiency. Today, Japan Railways operates a network that covers three of ...