2+ day, 39+ min ago  (1322+ words) Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6. 4 percent, and the United States just 0. 25 percent. Travel in Japan is…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (62+ words) (IMAGE)Eurek Alert! Expanded railways see a higher movement of people and a decrease in healthcare costs around well-connected stations. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (458+ words) Japan has discontinued rail service on 1, 366 kilometers of track over the past 30 years, equivalent to approximately 5% of the country's total rail network, according to an analysis by Kyodo News based on data released by the Ministry of Transport. In total,…...

5+ day, 44+ min ago  (240+ words) TOKYO - Railway services on 1, 366 kilometers of track among 68 sections, or 5 percent of Japan's total network, have been discontinued over the past three decades, a Kyodo News analysis showed Saturday, highlighting the shrinking of public transportation options in rural areas. Most…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago  (244+ words) Okinawa Urban Monorail (Yui Rail) will continue operating its special late-night train service, which runs every Friday just after midnight. The train departs Naha Airport Station at 12: 00 a. m. and operates as far as Makishi Station. It arrives at Asahibashi Station at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (237+ words) Ceny Avto. com Japanese company Nankai Electric Railway is opening a large-scale logistics facility in Osaka Prefecture. The facility in question is Freight Terminal No. 7, located in the city of Ibaraki. The official opening is scheduled for April 1, while the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (539+ words) The Shinkansen isn't a single invention, but a complex assembly of subsystems, each optimized to work in perfect harmony. From the outset, Japanese engineers abandoned conventional railway constraints to create a dedicated high-speed network. A foundational decision in the Shinkansen's…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (220+ words) March 29, 2026 (Mainichi Japan) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- East Japan Railway Co. has launched the country's first freight service using shinkansen bullet trains, aiming to swiftly deliver goods such as fresh produce from the northeastern region of Tohoku to the Tokyo metropolitan area....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (252+ words) Shizuoka Prefecture's special committee has approved environmental conservation measures for a section of the planned Chuo Shinkansen maglev line. The committee approved all 28 measures proposed by Central Japan Railway Co. , or JR Central, including those to reduce water consumption, on…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago  (218+ words) First shipment of Japanese-made train cars for Egypt's Cairo Metro departs from Port of Kobe by car carrier'shipmanagementinternational. com First shipment of Japanese-made train cars for Egypt's Cairo Metro departs'from Port of Kobe by car carrier Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd....