Locals, train staff, rail fans and others welcomed the restoration of service on March 14 to part of the JR Joban Line in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, closed since the nuclear disaster ...

The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has awarded a contract to Thales to design a communications-based train control system (CBTC) for Tokyo’s 30km-long Joban suburban line. The new CBTC system ...

Ordinarily, passengers bringing bicycles on board are required to disassemble them and pack them in special carry bags. 03:07 But on this trial service, cyclists can simply roll their bikes onto the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from JR East Train Simulator: Joban Line - Shinagawa to Katsuta: E531-0 series The Joban Line runs from Ueno Station in Taito-ku, Tokyo to Sendai Station in ...

Evacuation orders in the towns of Futaba, Okuma and Tomioka - imposed after the March 2011 accident at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant - are to be partially lifted in early-March. The ...

In rail-reliant Japan, trains come and go with such frequency that most stations don’t bother to have an actual employee individually announce each arrival and departure. Instead, there’s usually a ...

TSUCHIURA, Ibaraki Prefecture--A Joban Line train struck a car being chased by police early on March 26 in a fiery crash here, derailing the train and partially disrupting service along the line for ...