East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 27 inaugurated a segment of Takanawa Gateway City, a mixed-use development ...

The ceremony was held at Shinbashi Station in Tokyo because the first steam locomotive left what is now that station bound for Yokohama 29 kilometers away on Oct. 14, 1872. The special train ...

The exterior of the stylish new modern-designed train car is navy blue. 05:09 Until this new train, the standard width of Sagami Railway's trains was 2.95 meters. So the drivers cab of Sagami ...

Great East Japan Earthquake struck in the mid-afternoon, train services in the Tokyo metropolitan area came to a halt for hours, with many lines not running until the next day.

There are a lot of little things that make Japan’s rail network so pleasant to use, and one of them is the departure melodies that play before trains depart. Instead of a harsh buzzer or clanging bell ...

Chichibu is about an hour from Tokyo's Ikebukuro. Trains from Tokyo to Yokohama take around thirty minutes.

A survey on which Tokyo area stations people would ... Neighborhoods are categorized by the name of their local train stations. The top four of Yokohama, Ōmiya, Kichijōji, and Ebisu remained ...