The first Shinkansen train that operates at 300km/h, the 500 Series. All nine units belong to JR West, and serve Tokaido.Sanyo Shinkansen between 1997 and 2010. These trains now reformed from 16 t... (more)

Hakata Car Maintenance Centre is the depot to conduct major maintenance for trains on Sanyo Shinkansen. Trains finished washing will line up here and ready for passenger service from Hakata.

SCMaglev and Railway Park exhibit two experimental shinkansen trains introduced in the mid-1990s, 300X and MLX01. 300X was a prototype to test the design features of the existing 700, N700 Series,... (more)

The SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya opened in 2011. Different generations of Tokaido Shinkansen Trains are preserved and on display inside the park.

Osaka Metro formerly known as Osaka Municipal Subway before being corporatized. Introduced in 1973, the 10 Series train was the first third rail-powered train with an A/C system. It had been servi... (more)

Osaka Metro introduced the second generation 20 Series for several lines in 1990. There are five variants with different formations and liveries for operating each line.

Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway owns several trains for operating through service with Osaka Metro’s Midosuji Line. There were seven sets of 8000 Series entered service since 1987. As of now, only thre... (more)

JR-Central and JR-West run the 16 car 700-0 and -3000 series trains respectively for Tokaido.Sanyo Shinkansen since 1999. At the moment only a few scheduled services on Tokaido Shinkansen are oper... (more)

Meeting of two N700 shinkansen trains of JR Central east of Kyoto station. In the foreground the cape gauge tracks with a regional train. Kyoto station is just on the right. The view is from the K... (more)

4-6-2 "Pacific" steamlocomotive C57 # 1 of Japan Railway, operated by JR West, came with the 5 car "Yamaguchi SL" (Yamaguchi province steam train) from Shin-Yamaguchi to Tsuwan... (more)

Driver of the 4-6-2 "Pacific" steamlocomotive C57 # 1 of JR West (owned by the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum of Kyoto) is posing with passengers of the "Yamaguchi SL" steamtrain from Shin-Yamagu... (more)

19 of the 8-car N700-7000 series shinkansen were built for JR West from 2010 to 2012, for the "Sakura" and "Mizuho" services between Shin-Osaka and Kagoshima-Chuo. In contrast ... (more)