Returns are enhanced by extra charges for seat reservations, first class seats, and non-Shinkansen express trains. The company's focus is on building the new magnetic levitation, or maglev ...

Superconductivity, or power transmission with zero electrical resistance, may bring the Chuo Shinkansen maglev rail project ...

The president of Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) announced on March 29 that the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line will not begin operating in 2027 as planned, with the delay now expected to be at ...

We expect net income to fall by a third over the next 10 years, mainly because of the dilutive Chuo Shinkansen development. Chuo returns are likely to be poor because of the huge cost of digging ...

NAGOYA—Soft ground in Aichi Prefecture will delay completion of a tunnel for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line by more than five years to the end of January 2030. The soft ...

Some trains heading for Tokyo on the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines were carrying more passengers than the seating capacity. As for air travel, around 70 percent of seats were booked on ...

As rail infrastructure ages, components need to be replaced and structures such as pillars and tunnels have to be reinforced.