You sit in your Shinkansen seat and open your smartphone out of habit. You browse social media or continue watching a video.

Andy Burgess explores why one company is blasting 257 km of tunnels beneath the Japanese Alps and examines the benefits and drawbacks of that rapid construction from the perspective of people in Japan ...

In a move that signals a shift in how speed and logistics intersect, Japan has transformed one of its iconic bullet trains into a high-speed cargo carrier. The initiative by East Japan Railway Company ...

The new Kyoto Railway Museum showcases nearly 150 years of train travel in Japan, from early steam locomotives to the ultramodern Shinkansen bullet trains. Here's a full tour. Kyoto is best known for ...

Since the early 1990s, Tangerine has been one of the pre-eminent independent design consultancies, working across all facets of industrial design, from household products to the technology and ...

Even if you use them every day, there are many surprisingly unknown facts about railways. In the "Railway Trivia" series, I ...

From the very first run of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen on October 1, 1964, until the present day, there has never been a single derailment or collision on the entire full-standard Shinkansen rail network ...