Japan has been at the forefront of innovative transportation since the introduction of the world's first true high-speed rail, the Tokaido Shinkansen, in 1964. This historic rail line is undergoing a ...

A tunnel collapse here Oct. 27 killed a 44-year-old construction worker and seriously injured another man in the first fatal accident connected to the enormous magnetic levitation train project.

Japan is currently developing the world's fastest train, the L0 Series, which is a Japanese maglev train being produced and tested by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). This train is ...

Central Japan Railway Company has shown to the public for the first time progress on the construction of the high-speed ...

Experience Japan's incredible maglev train in Yamanashi, reaching speeds of over 500 km/h! Discover the technology behind ...

The longest, largest, and fastest maglev train in the world, situated at the Yamanashi test track in Japan, has restarted public testing. The test track has recently been extended to 42.8 kilometers ...

Imagine gliding across long distances at nearly 400 miles per hour on a train that floats silently above its tracks. No rattling wheels, no jolts, just a smooth, whisper-quiet ride. This is the ...

Although railway construction issues have pushed back the scheduled start of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line, improvements on ...

The first phase of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line will connect Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, with trains traveling at up to 500 kilometers an hour using magnetic ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Could high speed trains, long envisioned to connect America’s vast expanses and decongest its axes of commute, soon become a reality? The ...

A proposal for a new super-fast train connecting New York and Washington, D.C. is moving full speed ahead. The organization behind the proposed train, Northeast Maglev, opened a new office in ...