How to Get There: Take the Tokaido Shinkansen to Odawara Station (35 minutes from Tokyo). For attractions, use the Hakone Tozan Railway, Hakone Ropeway, or local buses. The Hakone Free Pass ...

Deals can include shinkansen tickets to and ... The mountain onsen town of Hakone is only about 90 minutes by train from central Tokyo, making it a popular weekend destination.

Filmmaker Shinji Higuchi reveals the inspirations behind the train drama that reached No. 2 in the streamer's global non-English films list.

Although I felt a bit sick during my two-and-a-half-hour trip from Osaka to Tokyo, I would jump at the chance to ride the Shinkansen again. Here's why. Japan's train system is famously reliable.

The Shinkansen network connects the Tokyo metropolitan area to various regions of the country, serving approximately 14 million passengers every day, according to the East Japan Rail Company.

We visit Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. Once the site of a security checkpoint for traffic in and out of old Tokyo, it evolved into a hot spring resort, now with an increasingly diverse community.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Five minutes before its scheduled departure at 6.16am, the Hokuriku Shinkansen pulls into Tokyo Station ...

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power ...