Join the BBC's Paul Carter in Tokyo as he marks 60 years of the iconic Shinkansen, better known as the bullet train. With 6.8 billion passengers and delays averaging just one minute, Paul ...

Donna Burke has been the voice of Japan's bullet train for 20 years now. She also does voice over for Japan's earthquake alert system.

with a striking angular design and a bullet-shaped front. Incredible pictures show what the train looks like from the inside including the highly sophisticated business class carriage and dining car.

These trains ... more common bullet train designs that run on overhead power, these vessels careen through the Japanese ...

The "Doctor Yellow" T4 edition track-testing bullet train for Japan's high-speed shinkansen lines arrives at JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital after making its final run on Jan. 29, 2025, as ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO -- The Yamagata Shinkansen Line's Tsubasa bullet train, traveling from Yamagata Station to Tokyo Station, collided with a fallen tree in Yamagata Prefecture on the morning of Jan. 11.

A Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this file photo. (Mainichi) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were temporarily halted Friday after ...

At Tokyo Station, all Nozomi and Hikari bullet trains were canceled, leaving only Kodama trains operating. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) stated that there is no estimated time for the ...