As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer?

I hope the trolley train, the line's most popular attraction, will bring even more people to the railway.

TOKUSHIMA--Shikoku Railway Co. (JR Shikoku) plans to start operating a new sightseeing trolley train themed on Awa ... repainted in indigo (“ai” in Japanese), bearing the logo of “Ai ...

KUROBE, Toyama Prefecture—Kurobe Gorge Railway Co. has started partial services of its orange-colored mountain sightseeing trolley train on a ... (The page is in Japanese. Please right click ...

announced it would construct Japan’s first 3D-printed train station in Wakayama Prefecture. The Japan News says the locomotive company will replace the aging Hatsushima Station along the Kisei ...

A new “earthquake resistant”, 200mph train set to take to the tracks in Japan was designed by a British firm in a bullet train first. The high-speed E10 Shinkansen train is set to enter ...