East Japan Railway says it will launch a new overnight express train connecting Tokyo with the northeastern Tohoku region in ...

The Foreign Ministry noted that the firing practice involving a patrol boat of the Japan Coast Guard took place on May 23 in the open sea 18.5 km northeast of Cape Shiretoko without prior notification ...

Rainy season or tsuyu is a month filled with battling mold and drying clothes indoors. Here's how to survive the rainy season ...

Pure at Niseko Village will introduce a new selection of outdoor activities for the 2025 summer season, running from July 1 ...

HONG KONG -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Hokkaido, Japan Region at 08:37:14 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 ...

Leading multimodal booking platform 12Go announces the global roll-out of its new rail-pass marketplace, giving travelers a single, intuitive hub to browse, purchase, and activate the world's most ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...

Hokkaido’s rail transportation system is grappling with two tough challenges, with the completion of the Hokkaido Shinkansen’s final 212-kilometer stretch between Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto and ...

Shimokitazawa, a Bohemian neighbourhood that’s an easy four-station local train ride from the chaos ... its heart is located some 1200km away in Hokkaido, the second-biggest of Japan’s major ...

SAPPORO, Japan -- With the extension of shinkansen bullet train service to Sapporo now delayed until the end of fiscal 2038, communities along the planned link in Hokkaido are fretting over the ...

A Hong Kong tourist was killed in Japan after a train rammed into her while she was taking photos on the tracks. The incident, which occurred in the coastal city of Otaru in Hokkaido ...