The term Shinkansen means "new trunk line," and it literally redefined rail travel across the globe. Its newest sibling, the Chuo Shinkansen maglev, is poised to leave everything else in the dust.

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 ...

It is perhaps Japan’s boldest rail innovation yet. The Chuo Shinkansen maglev line will link Tokyo to the southern city of Nagoya in 40 minutes – arguably making the maglev faster than flying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

When it enters service, the Maglev Chuo Shinkansen will be the world's fastest bullet train. A test run in 2015 already set a world record by clocking 603 kilometers per hour. It will link the ...

A section of track along JR East's Chuo Line between Hino and Toyoda stations that has a superconducting electric cable laid out, from below center to the background, is seen in the Tokyo suburb ...

Niwa expressed willingness to "continue to cooperate with areas and businesses along the Shinkansen line." As for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev line, Niwa said JR Central aims to introduce a ...

By 2027 such trains will be running on the Chuo Shinkansen line, which will link Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. Eighty percent of the 177 mile track will be underground, tunnelling under the ...

When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...