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Tourists visiting Japan should consider that the cultural norms may be very different than what they're used to back home, especially when riding the metro.
Back in 2001, East Japan Railway Company/JR East revolutionized train travel in Japan when they launched the Suica system. Instead of having to hunt for your destination on a map posted on the wall in order to determine the fare,
The Shinkansen, Japanese for "bullet train," forever changed transportation in Japan and in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the Tokyo Olympics, with the opening of the Tokaido Shinkansen.
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While many visitors to Japan beeline to the history and hubbub of Kyoto and Tokyo, surprisingly fewer travellers make their way to the region of Kansai: a hinterland of bubbling hot springs, snow-capped hills and stirring coastlines. It’s a region that ...
(CNN) — Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of Osaka and a place in the history books. This was ...
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