Passenger transport in Japan is declining. The railway company JR East is looking for alternatives – and is sending freight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small turtle crawls through a custom-built concrete trench installed underneath heavy metal train tracks surrounded by gravel.© ...

A Japanese railway company has launched an etiquette campaign aimed at foreign tourists that taps into one of the nation’s most globally recognisable cultural icons – manga characters – in response to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My husband and I paid $230 for Gran Class tickets on the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan. On our way from Tokyo to Nagano, we ...

It’s been a particularly odd year for weather in Japan, with the heat lingering until just a few days ago, when the temperatures fell dramatically to winter-like levels. As it feels like we’re ...

Japan is so much better at transit than the United States. Not only do they have high-speed rail over there, but they have stations with the best stationmasters around: Cats. The country's Kishi ...

Trains with beautiful interiors and unique layouts tend to attract a lot of attention. Recently, a digital creator shared a clip praising the interiors of a Japanese train and it went viral on ...