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On 11 August 2020 Tokyo metro at its Shin-Kiba depot presented one of its first Hitachi-built Class 17000 trains.
On 3 March JR East announced plans to develop and purchase new Shinkansen Class E8 EMUs.
On 25 January 2020 JR West introduced a new night train, which is planned to connect Kyoto and Osaka with Izumo by two pairs of trains weekly.
Tokyo Metro Ginza line is partly interrupted from 28 December 2019 to 2 January 2020 between Shibuya and Omote-sando.
On 11 December 2019 JR Central announced the withdrawal of its 700 Series Shinkansen high speed EMUs. The last run will take place on 8 March...
On 28 March 2019 at Hazawa-Yokohama-Kokudai station, a new facility built on a JR Freight marshalling yard, a ceremony was held to mark...
On 14 February 2019 the Seibu Railway Company (Seibu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha), the private operator of the 1,067 mm gauge rail network in...
JR Shikoku is to acquire a new Class 2700 DMUs for its Limited Express services. The first two pre-series two-car trains will be tested on the...
During the nights of 29/30 and 30/31 December 2018 as part of its project to introduce driverless train operation on the Yamanote and Tōhoku Shinkansen lines, JR East undertook the first trial runs of regular automatic train operation.
This photo, taken on 12 December 2018, shows the bodyshell of a Class E956 end car of the ten-car experimental ALFA-X Shinkansen train being...