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A 42-year-old man who came from Dubai with three family members left Kyoto Station around noon, changed to a bullet train on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line at Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture and ...

but as the perfect slow-travel alternative to the whirr of the bullet train that zips throngs of travelers from Tokyo to Kyoto. Here, we’ve distilled the 330-mile walking trail down to its most ...

Join the BBC's Paul Carter in Tokyo as he marks 60 years of the iconic Shinkansen, better known as the bullet train. With 6.8 billion passengers and delays averaging just one minute, Paul ...