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Sixteen-car trains were introduced for Expo '70 in Osaka. ... Shinkansen should start from Shinjuku, ... to launch high-speed trains by 2020 and planned to ...
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.
The Chuo Shinkansen (中央新幹線, Central Shinkansen) is a Japanese maglev line under construction between Tokyo and Nagoya, with plans for extension to Osaka.Its initial section is between Shinagawa Station in Tokyo and Nagoya Station in Nagoya, with stations in Sagamihara, Kōfu, Iida and Nakatsugawa.
The capacity constraints on the Tokaido Main Line had been clear prior to World War II, and work started on a new 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge "bullet train" line in 1940. Intercity passenger traffic between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka largely transferred to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen after it was completed in 1964.
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.
Faced with a looming labor shortage and a trend for more people to buy food before boarding the train, on-board snack cart services between the cities of Tokyo and Osaka will reach the end of the ...
Shinjuku – Tōbu-Nikko 2006– Noto Kagaribi: Noto fire built in an iron basket: JR-West Kanazawa – Wakuraonsen: 2015– Odoriko / Super View Odoriko / Saphir Odoriko: refers to The Dancing Girl of Izu: JR East / Izukyū / Izuhakone Railway: Tokyo, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro – Itō, Izukyū Shimoda, Shuzenji: Odoriko: 1981- Super View Odoriko ...
The East Japan Railway Company [10] is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST [11] or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon) in Japanese.