Japan is still topping the charts as a trending travel destination, and a survey found that just over 51% of foreign visitors use trains to get around.

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There are delays, and then there are delays that turn into stories people repeat for years. The incident happened on Japan's Shinkansen network, a rail system that moves hundreds of thousands of ...

A traveler tried Japan’s most luxurious sleeper train, the exclusive Shikushima, where tickets are normally so difficult to get that passengers enter a lottery just to buy them. The journey included a ...

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Sridhar Vembu's photo on Japan's bullet train wearing a veshti went viral. This image resonated with many as a natural ...

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One Tokyo local shares the common ways visitors go astray—and how you can do better.