“While planning my trip, I came across a post on WeChat advertising Shinkansen tickets at a 30-percent discount,” a Chinese man told police after purchasing a resold ticket. He said he ...

I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but ...

One of the most confounding issues: Buying two tickets for a single Shinkansen ride. Travelers are constantly flummoxed by this strange practice, but it's an important one to know ahead of time.

Passengers can use non-contact IC cards instead of paper tickets to ride Shinkansen bullet trains starting on March 14, Yuji Fukasawa, president of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East), said.

JR West, a railway company of Japan, has begun connecting online and ticketless booking services ‘Express Booking’ and ‘Smart EX’ with the route search on Apple Map.

For the Kyushu Shinkansen Line's Kagoshima route, the digital tickets are available through the membership reservation system ...

Tokyo Station and other Shinkansen stops were packed with people scrambling to buy tickets for other trains. Watch video 1:33 NHK World's Yamaguchi Hiroaki reports from Tokyo Station. JR East says ...

With its amazing Shinkansen line seeing trains hurtling along at speeds up to 177mph, the Asian country's high-tech railway is said to be the world's most punctual. Japanese National Railways ...