The Shinkansen, Japan's high-speed intercity railway network, is often touted as the gold standard for high-speed rail.

A planned extension of the Hokkaido Shinkansen to Sapporo is slated for completion after 2030. And with ageing Japan increasingly facing labour shortages, one of the rail companies JR East has ...

which serves Japan's southwesternmost island of Kyushu. The fastest train currently in operation in the archipelagic country is the Hayabusa Shinkansen, which runs on the Tohoku and Hokkaido lines ...

T he government plans to delay its plan to extend the Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, Japan's northernmost bullet train route, to Sapporo by eight years to March 2039, partly due to tunnel construction ...

The Shinkansen network has expanded steadily ... of miles through to Kyushu in the far south and Hokkaido in the north. A map of Japan's high-speed rail lines. - jrailpass.com Japan’s ...