Touring Japan’s bullet train feels like stepping into a transportation system that is decades ahead of the rest of the world.

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 ...

Riding Japan’s famous Bullet Train was an experience that truly lived up to the hype. This journey took us from Osaka to ...

Zicasso has decided the best way to celebrate 60 years of Japan’s Shinkansen is with an exclusive trip on the famous bullet train. The luxury travel company has created a 10-day “rail cruise” to ...

Toward Honshu’s southern tip, Japan’s largest island narrows, yet the landscape remains as dramatic as ever. Down here, the Setouchi region is a tapestry of hazy hills, palm-lined coast, and ...

Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a passenger carriage will do the trick, albeit for just 17 minutes. On ...

The number of people taking bullet trains and express trains in Japan during the 10-day year-end and New Year period rose to 13.71 million, with the daily average marking a record high since ...

Japan’s biggest island is home to so many of the country’s popular highlights that the classic tour has become known as Japan ...