Shinkansen trains are known for their on-time efficiency, but if you arrive at the station well in advance of your train’s ...

JR East on Saturday marked exactly 100 years of operation of the iconic Yamanote loop line train that encircles central Tokyo ...

Average train delays of 36 seconds every year? Who could complain about that kind of service? The Japanese icon JR East is one of the subjects in Skift's recent sixth anniversary book, For the Long ...

Located in Shinjuku and Shibuya in Tokyo, Shinjuku station is one of the largest rail station buildings, handling 3.6 million passengers a day. Shinjuku station is located in Shinjuku and Shibuya in ...

All services on East Japan Railway's busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo were suspended Friday morning due to wire trouble, before being resumed later in the day. The inner loop service, in which trains run ...

With 882 stations on 14 lines, Tokyo's amazing subway system is one of the largest – and busiest – in all the world. The system map is a twisted mass of squiggles that resembles a Jackson Pollock ...