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U.S. envoy to Japan on maglev train

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R) is guided by Central Japan Railway Co. Chairman Shin Kaneko at an exhibition center of a high-speed maglev train for the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line in Tsuru in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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U.S. envoy to Japan on maglev train

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (R) looks at a speedometer during a demonstration ride on Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen high-speed maglev train with Chairman Shin Kaneko in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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U.S. envoy to Japan on maglev train

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel (L) talks with Central Japan Railway Co. Chairman Shin Kaneko during a demonstration ride on its Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev bullet train in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

KAWASAKI, Japan Kyodo - Video taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour. (Kyodo)

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel work site shown to media

Photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a maglev train tunnel work site in Kawasaki near Tokyo, shown to the media ahead of full-fledged drilling beginning around September. Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen bullet train service will link between Tokyo and Osaka for about one hour.

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Maglev train tunnel

FUJIKAWA, Japan, Oct. 13 Kyodo - A ceremony is held in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2023, to mark the completion of a 710-meter tunnel for Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev trains that will run between Nagoya and Tokyo at speeds of 500 kilometers per hour. (Kyodo)

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Maglev train tunnel

A ceremony is held in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2023, to mark the completion of a 710-meter tunnel for Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev trains that will run between Nagoya and Tokyo at speeds of 500 kilometers per hour.

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Maglev train tunnel

A 710-meter tunnel is completed in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2023, for Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev trains that will run between Nagoya and Tokyo at speeds of about 500 kilometers per hour.

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Maglev train tunnel

A 710-meter tunnel is completed in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2023, for Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev trains that will run between Nagoya and Tokyo at speeds of about 500 kilometers per hour.

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Tourists with local mascot at Yamanashi maglev center

KOFU, Japan - Visitors to the Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center in Tsuru in the central Japanese prefecture pose for a photo with one of the local mascots from seven prefectures along the maglev Chuo Shinkansen line project on Nov. 8, 2014.

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New maglev bullet train on test run

TOKYO, Japan - A Chuo Shinkansen bullet train using the superconducting maglev system is seen in a test run in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture, in August 2013.

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JR Tokai briefs on plan for deep tunnel for maglev train

NAGOYA, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., known as JR Tokai, holds a briefing session in Nagoya on April 22, 2014, to give an account of a plan to build a deep underground tunnel for its Chuo Shinkansen magnetically levitated train line.

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JR Tokai hopes to start building maglev train line soon

TOKYO, Japan - Koei Tsuge, president of Central Japan Railway Co., says at a press conference in Tokyo on April 2, 2014, that the company hopes to proceed with work so that construction of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen line for magnetically levitated trains can begin as soon as possible. JR Tokai envisions the line will run between Tokyo and Nagoya starting in 2027.

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Taiwan shinkansen attendants in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Chiu Shu-chuan (L) is pictured during a training session aboard a bullet train between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo station of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line in southwestern Japan on Jan. 16, 2014. Chiu is one of five attendants on Taiwanese bullet trains built with Japanese technology who started on-the-job training aboard Kyushu Railway Co. shinkansen trains the same day.

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Tohoku Shinkansen service to fully resume

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 27, 2011, shows the Hayabusa advanced model of the shinkansen (front) in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The bullet train service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Ichinoseki, which has been suspended in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, is scheduled to resume on April 29, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori for the first time since the suspension. As the Kyushu Shinkansen Line fully opened between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo on March 12, bullet train services will link Aomori at the northern tip of the Honshu main island, and Kagoshima at the southern tip of the southwestern main island of Kyushu, for the first time.

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Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train

FUKUOKA, Japan - A digital sign for the ''Sakura'' bullet train service, indicating ''reserved seats'' and the destination, ''Kagoshima-Chuo'' station, is unveiled during a public event at a West Japan Railway Co. facility in the town of Nakagawa in Fukuoka Prefecture on October 2010.

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N700 Series of bullet train cars

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken in July 2010 shows the N700 Series of bullet train cars that will be employed on West Japan Railway Co.'s shinkansen train line connecting Osaka and Kagoshima prefectures. The fastest bullet train aims to connect Shin-Osaka and Kagoshima Chuo stations in 3 hours and 47 minutes when the operation of the train service is expected to be launched on March 12, 2011.

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(5)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame leaves Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, for Shin-Yatsushiro Station in Kumamoto Prefecture, as the service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro on March 13.

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(4)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Two railway fans takes pictures of Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame in an orange farm in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on March 13, as the train service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

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(2) Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame departs from Kagoshima-Chuo Station with Mt. Sakurajima in the background on March 13 as the service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

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(1)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame No. 1 (L) arrives at Kagoshima-Chuo Station as Tsubame No. 40 leaves the station on March 13. Part of the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

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(3)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame comes out of a tunnel March 13 as the service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. At the opening ceremony at Kagoshima-Chuo station, Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said the launch of the Kyushu Shinkansen ''will activate economies along the line and attract more tourists to the region.''

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds talks with Mie Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi and Nara Gov. Shogo Arai in the Mie Prefecture capital Tsu on June 17, 2022, about the Linear Chuo Shinkansen, a planned maglev bullet train line that will link Tokyo and Osaka.

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Man nabbed after starting fire on bullet train in southwest Japan

An electronic signboard at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, notifies passengers of a delay in shinkansen bullet train services on Nov. 8, 2021. A man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to start a fire on a shinkansen train bound for Kagoshima-chuo Station, which was running in Kumamoto Prefecture at the time of the incident.

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Man nabbed after starting fire on bullet train in southwest Japan

An electronic signboard at JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, notifies passengers of a delay in shinkansen bullet train services on Nov. 8, 2021. A man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to start a fire on a shinkansen train bound for Kagoshima-chuo Station, which was running in Kumamoto Prefecture at the time of the incident.

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Maglev train tunnel cave-in in central Japan

Photo taken Oct. 28, 2021, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area around the previous day's accident site in the central Japan city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, where a tunnel under construction for the Chuo Shinkansen maglev train line caved in, leaving one worker dead and another injured.

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Part of bullet train line resumes in quake-hit area

Passengers alight from a shinkansen bullet train at JR Kagoshima-Chuo Station in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on April 20, 2016. Kyushu Railway Co. resumed shinkansen services for the first time in six days between JR Shin-Minamata station and Kagoshima-Chuo station, following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Part of bullet train line resumes in quake-hit area

A shinkansen bullet train arrives at JR Kagoshima-Chuo Station in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on April 20, 2016. Kyushu Railway Co. resumed shinkansen services for the first time in six days between JR Shin-Minamata station and Kagoshima-Chuo station, following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Part of bullet train line resumes in quake-hit area

Passengers board a shinkansen bullet train at JR Kagoshima-Chuo Station in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on April 20, 2016. Kyushu Railway Co. resumed shinkansen services for the first time in six days between JR Shin-Minamata station and Kagoshima-Chuo station, following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Part of bullet train line resumes in quake-hit area

Photo taken April 20, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bullet train running in Minamata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto. Kyushu Railway Co. resumed operating shinkansen trains for the first time in six days between JR Shin-Minamata station and Kagoshima-Chuo station, following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Part of bullet train line resumes in quake-hit area

Photo taken April 20, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a bullet train running in Minamata in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto. Kyushu Railway Co. resumed operating shinkansen trains for the first time in six days between JR Shin-Minamata station and Kagoshima-Chuo station, following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JR Tokai unveils work on Japan's 1st maglev train line

Central Japan Railway Co. unveils survey work in Nagoya on March 31, 2015, for the construction of Japan's first magnetically levitated shinkansen bullet train line. JR Tokai is scheduled to open to business the Tokyo-Nagoya part of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen Line in 2027. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Shinkansen having mixed effect on local economies

TOKYO, Japan - Kagoshima Chuo Station on Kyushu Shinkansen Line in the city of Kagoshima is crowded with more passengers than expected on Jan. 18 just after the launch of its service. (Kyodo)

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The entrance to Mt. Nunobiki

View of the area near present-day Shin Kobe Station (Sanyo Shinkansen Line) and the New Kobe Oriental Hotel in Chuo Ward. Taken in the latter half of the Meiji Period. On the hillside to the left of the Takimichi (waterfall road) is a hot spring called Nunobiki Spa fed by boiling-hot, carbonated spring water from underground. There used to be many inns, restaurants, and teahouses along the road continuing from the northeast of Ikuta Shinto Shrine to this area. Many people visited here to enjoy the cool air during summer.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐13‐0]

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Tohoku Shinkansen service to fully resume

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 27, 2011, shows the Hayabusa advanced model of the shinkansen (front) in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture. The bullet train service on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Sendai and Ichinoseki, which has been suspended in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, is scheduled to resume on April 29, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori for the first time since the suspension. As the Kyushu Shinkansen Line fully opened between Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo on March 12, bullet train services will link Aomori at the northern tip of the Honshu main island, and Kagoshima at the southern tip of the southwestern main island of Kyushu, for the first time. (Kyodo)

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Tourists with local mascot at Yamanashi maglev center

KOFU, Japan - Visitors to the Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center in Tsuru in the central Japanese prefecture pose for a photo with one of the local mascots from seven prefectures along the maglev Chuo Shinkansen line project on Nov. 8, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Mickey shinkansen bullet train in Japan

Photo taken May 17, 2019, shows Kyushu Railway Co.'s shinkansen bullet train featuring Mickey Mouse at a platform of Hakata Station in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The train is scheduled to run between Hakata and Kagoshima Chuo Station in Kagoshima Prefecture through late November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mickey shinkansen bullet train in Japan

Photo taken May 17, 2019, shows Kyushu Railway Co.'s shinkansen bullet train featuring Mickey Mouse at a platform of Hakata Station in Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The train is scheduled to run between Hakata and Kagoshima Chuo Station in Kagoshima Prefecture through late November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Part of Kyushu Shinkansen service launched

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train Tsubame No. 1 (L) arrives at Kagoshima-Chuo Station as Tsubame No. 40 leaves the station on March 13. Part of the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train service opened for business on a 128-kilometer route between Kagoshima-Chuo, Kagoshima Prefecture, and Shin-Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Tsuru in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the logo of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Tsuru in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Tsuru in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the interior of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the interior of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the interior of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the interior of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.

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JR Central holds test ride, unveils design of revised maglev train

Photo taken in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 19, 2020, shows the interior of the revised Linear Chuo Shinkansen, Central Japan Railway Co.'s new maglev bullet train service that will link Tokyo and Osaka at a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour once completed. JR Central invited media for a test ride on the new train, the interior of which employs a bright design based on a white motif, with wider seats to ensure spacious comfort for each passenger.