According to Google Maps, the distance between Tokyo Station (where the Shinkansen train departs) and Kyoto Station is 282 miles. The trip took a bit over two hours, with a handful of intermediate ...

The TikTok community is sold. Traveler shares honest thoughts after first-time premium ride on high-speed bullet train: 'Look ...

I've traveled on trains all around the world, but Japan's bullet trains exceeded my wildest dreams. I rode the Hikari Shinkansen train between Tokyo and Kyoto. The train was fast, timely, clean ...

His handler, Maria (Sandra Bullock), issues his orders through an earpiece: pick up weapons from a station locker, board the Shinkansen to Kyoto, steal a stranger’s briefcase, and exit at the ...

Passengers prepare to board a Shinkansen train at Kyoto Station on October 4, 2024. Adam Bearne/NPR hide caption toggle caption ...

Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo Station, a bustling cathedral to modern rail travel, it's hard to believe that it was 60 years ago this year that the first Shinkansen train departed from here ...

Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.