OSAKA--Japan’s oldest tramcar is again periodically ... The renovated Mo-161 tramcar ran through the streets of Osaka and Sakai on Dec. 2. Rail buffs were out in force to shoot photos of the ...

still rattles along the streets of this iconic city in western Japan. Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.’s Type 650 tram was near Chuden-mae station when the bomb detonated on Aug. 6, 1945.

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.

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

Japan has a total of seven automated guideway transit lines in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and Kobe. In October 1993, a train on the New Tram line in Osaka collided with a buffer, injuring 215 ...

Japan has scrapped plans to build a light railway part-way up Mount Fuji and is instead considering a Chinese-made cross between a bus and a tram, a local governor said Monday. The number of ...

A 3·2 km, one-station western extension of the Chūō metro Line in Osaka from Cosmosquare to Yumeshima opened on January 19.

OSAKA: West Japan Railway has developed a stab-resistant umbrella that will be used to protect passengers and crew members from knife-wielding assailants on trains. The rail company, also known as ...

(Mainichi) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka were temporarily halted Friday after a fire broke out near a track in central Japan, according to JR Central. The fire ...