Situated on the boundary of Shinjuku’s Memory Lane — a narrow alleyway of shabby but charming food stalls — Tajimaya Coffee House stands as evidence of Tokyo’s enduring kissaten culture. Kissaten ...

For those looking to dive into Tokyo’s past, Fukagawa Edo is a great substitute for the much larger Edo-Tokyo Museum, which ...

The opening of the Tohoku Shinkansen in 1982, and its many subsequent extensions and branches, brought the northernmost third of Japan’s main island of Honshu immeasurably closer to Tokyo in travel ..

A rapidly intensifying low-pressure system was unleashing heavy snow and strong winds across much of Japan, stretching from northern to western regions, with central Tokyo expected to see up to 1 ...

The Met Police were called to concerns about a man’s welfare in Colindale Avenue, near Colindale underground station, at around 1.45pm on Tuesday. Officers attended and were engaging with the ...

Events were held in the Hokuriku region Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the extension of the JR Hokuriku Shinkansen ... At Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture and ...

Major League Baseball announced that its 2025 regular season will begin with the Tokyo Series presented by Guggenheim at the Tokyo Dome, featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers with Oshu, Japan native ...

A SpaceX rocket carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov lifted off Kennedy Space Center. This mission will ...

The high-speed E10 Shinkansen train is set to enter service ... The E10 model will operate on the Tohoku route, which links Tokyo to Aomori in northern Japan in just over three hours.

A new £200m station being built in Cambridge will have storage space for 1,000 bikes, but no plans are in place to build a car park. The four-platform station is partly being built to accomodate ...

East Japan Railway says it will gradually resume operations of coupled Shinkansen bullet trains from Friday, before having them return to normal schedules on Saturday. The operator has suspended ...