Tokyo —What's being billed as "the world's most advanced train station" has opened in the western Japanese city of Osaka.Actually a new wing of the existing Osaka Station, eight minutes away via ...

In the more than 60 years since the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began running between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s high-speed train service has expanded into a broad network of routes that stretches across ...

JR-West train lines cover a total of 4,900 kilometers and 18 prefectures. It provides an array of choices, such as the Kansai Area Pass, which covers Osaka, Kyoto and Wakayama or Hokuriku Arch ...