NAGOYA—Soft ground in Aichi Prefecture will delay completion of a tunnel for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen ...

Commuters in Japan may be able to get around quite a bit faster in coming months. Central Japan Railway Company's maglev Shinkansen train — which travels at the breakneck speed of 310 mph — was opened ...

SHIZUOKA–The president of Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) met with the newly elected Shizuoka governor on June 5 to get ...

The city is hosting the 2020 Olympic games -- maglev is set to be officially unveiled in 2027 When the record-breaking Shinkansen high-speed rail line opened in 1964, it was perfect timing. That year, ...

Japan is well known for its high-speed bullet trains. The Japanese maglev train is a marvel of engineering, reflecting a significant leap forward in the future of high-speed rail technology. In a ...

Trains might have been the icon of the American Old West, but after the era of the automobile began at the turn of the 20th century, the locomotive slowly faded into the background of popular ...

Central Japan Railway Co.’s ongoing project to build a maglev train system linking Tokyo and Osaka is finally in full swing. Early this month, JR Tokai released a list of probable locations for ...

This list combines standard-gauge and maglev trains. The trains listed don't include unmanned experiments such as a rocket sled that hit 6,453 mph (1,038 km/h) at Holloman Air Force Base in 2003.