All seats on the fastest Nozomi bullet trains along the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines will be reservation-only during periods of peak demand, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) and West ...

To meet growing demand for reserved seats, the Nozomi Shinkansen’s operators have decided to reduce the number of free-seating train cars from three to two next spring. Beginning in March ...

Her white-gloved, waistcoated uniform impeccable, 22-year-old Hazuki Okuno boards a bullet train replica to rehearse the strict protocols behind the smooth operation of a Japanese institution ...

A window crack on a Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka forced a temporary slowdown, the operator said late Saturday. A steel plate on communications equipment in a tunnel in central ...

Nine trains from the series, each with 16 cars, were put into operation, running between Tokyo and Hakata stations as Nozomi trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines until 2010.