The much-ballyhooed magnetic levitation train line project linking Tokyo with Nagoya has been stuck in limbo since Shizuoka Prefecture refused to allow construction for what could be one of the ...

Currently, the bullet train (Shinkansen) is the fastest way to travel this distance, taking around 2 hours and 30 minutes on ...

A blink and you will miss it test ride on the maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line offers some idea of the potential of traveling at 500 kph. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) provided a trial run for media ...

Chinese engineers have solved the most significant challenge faced by the ultra high speed maglev trains. The trains usually experience a “tunnel boom” that happens when a train leaves the tunnel at ...

China has stunned the global transport world after a Maglev Train reached an unbelievable 700 km/h in just two seconds. This breakthrough has set a fresh world record and pushed the limits of what a ...

NAGOYA -- Japan's Transport Ministry chief effectively gave a green light Friday to the environmental assessment report on maglev shinkansen train service -- a milestone step toward a start of ...

JR Shinagawa Station and the site where a now-defunct train depot had been situated are pictured in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Dec. 9, 2017.

Reply to DMC27. The Maglev train has quite lower maintenance cost and almost no wearing and tearing compare to ordinary wheel on rail high speed train. Have wheels upto 160 kph which will then becom ...

TOKYO -- The government has given the green light for construction of a maglev train line between Tokyo and Nagoya, a project expected to stimulate the economy by deepening the tourism and business ...

another few 100 billion yen in overpriced bid rigging, all going on the taxpayers wallet, corruption in Japan is going to suck the life from Japan and its people. Its like a cancer that the J ...

The government's go-ahead last week finally sets in motion the ¥9 trillion project to build an ultrahigh-speed magnetic levitation railway line linking Tokyo and Osaka, more than 40 years after the ...