Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.

With Japan closed for so much of 2020-2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, visitors who missed riding the country’s trains have many new options.

A photo spot inside a Shinkansen train for passengers to pose with popular character Hello Kitty, June 25, 2018, in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, in a photo released by West Japan Railway.

The new station structure, measuring about 108 square feet, will be located in the southern prefecture of Wakayama, 60 miles south of Osaka, Japan’s third most populated city, West Japan Railway ...

Before the launch of Japan’s New Golden Route train line, the striking scenery between Tokyo and Osaka would pass by most travellers in a 185mph blur of blue-green and grey.

The Central Japanese Railway’s magnetic levitation train, which could travel from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore in 15 minutes and from Washington to New York in an hour.