Although railway construction issues have pushed back the scheduled start of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line, improvements on ...

The construction cost of the Chuo Shinkansen maglev line has ballooned from the initial 5.5 trillion yen to approximately 11 ...

Central Japan Railway Company has shown to the public for the first time progress on the construction of the high-speed ...

SHIZUOKA—Shizuoka Governor Yasutomo Suzuki on July 7 approved the start of construction on the long-stalled Shizuoka section of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev line, ending a yearslong stalemate ...

Japan’s Chuo Shinkansen is a $90 billion superconducting maglev project designed to run at 505 km/h. Massive tunnels, ...

The first phase of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line will connect Tokyo's Shinagawa Station and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, with trains traveling at up to 500 kilometers an hour using magnetic ...

Long delay: Passengers queue to board a Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo. JR Tokai plans to begin construction of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev line, but the Shizuoka section is seen as the ‘most ...

Andy Burgess explores why one company is blasting 257 km of tunnels beneath the Japanese Alps and examines the benefits and ...

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, ...

When we went on a 2-day family trip to Yamanashi, we stopped by the Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center on the ...