Home to the ultra-efficient high-speed Shinkansen network, Japan is a country perfectly suited to exploration by train ...

western Tokyo, are believed to have forced the worker, Osamu Takano, to enter train tracks at a railroad crossing in December 2023, investigative sources said Dec. 8. Takano, 56, manually raised ...

SAGA--Nearly 150 years after Japan’s first railroad went into service, remnants of that railway unearthed in central Tokyo are headed for a new life in this western prefecture to honor the man ...

Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw with Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, in Tokyo. (PTI ... towards the progress of the high-speed rail project which is a flagship project ...

Planning 2025's travels already, but a bit bored of the usual flying and driving routines? Say hello to slow, romantic travel aboard scenic train routes. Relaxing train journeys are one of my most ...

Tokyo's busy Shibuya Scramble Crossing is undoubtedly one of the most famous, known both in Japan and abroad for its huge amount of foot traffic. However, the first such crossing in Japan was not ...

After spending seven days in Tokyo ... Crossing, the world's busiest pedestrian intersection. If you want peak scramble, go during rush hour. Another tourist spot beside the crossing is the Hachikō ...

Tokyo has captured the imagination of countless creatives throughout history, from Anthony Bourdain (who said if he had to eat in only one city the rest of his life, it’d be Tokyo) to writer and ...

When it comes to scramble intersections, which halt all traffic to allow pedestrians to cross in every direction, including ...

It said Vaishnaw and Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi discussed the project at a meeting in Tokyo on Monday evening ... of the high-speed rail project which is a flagship ...

Tokyo police announced Wednesday that they have ... of resisting when he was allegedly coerced into entering a railway crossing in December 2023, where he was struck by a train.

Accessible via Shibuya Station Shibuya is most known for the famous Shibuya Crossing ... ode to Tokyo's fashionable girls. To clear things up, Harajuku is a neighborhood in Japan (part of the ...