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No worries about getting stuck in one of those dreaded middle seats on the high-speed train connecting Dallas and Houston. Texas Central has released details about seating configurations on its planned trains, and the cars feature either two-seat doubles or a double and a single.  (See renderings below.) Dallas-based Texas…

After years of complicated and added-expense hoops to jump through, JR will start letting international travelers buy their passes online and inside their home countries. There are several reasons Japan has been booming in popularity as a travel destination over the past decade, and a big one is the Japan…

At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content I've come across during the previous month. Here's the latest collection from December 2019. (Note that some links lead to paywall items, for which you may…

Get to know three of the people behind the “sexy” English-language voice announcements you’ll hear on public transport in Japan. If you’ve ever travelled on a train in Tokyo, chances are you’ll have navigated your way to your destination with the help of English-language rail announcements. These announcements usually follow ones…

With an imminent decision expected from the government which will determine if the controversial ... transport project will continue to go ahead,. High Speed 2 is a high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, partly under construction. Parliament approved plans for the first section in 2017, with clearance work being undertaken…

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In his 1921 book “A Diplomat In Japan,” written during the 1880s, British diplomat Ernest Satow (1843-1929) wrote widely about travel in Japan: How Japanese people traveled, where they stayed, what they ate and what happened during his own travels on the Tokaido (“Eastern Sea Road”) from Tokyo to Kyoto.Declaring…

This summer, literally the entire world will be heading to Tokyo. If you’re among the hundreds of thousands of people planning to hit the summer Olympics during July and August, chances are that at some point you’re going to want a peaceful escape from the perpetual crowds. Sure, Japan is…

Getting from Tokyo to Osaka is a two and a half hour journey, but soon — well, in 17 years — it might take just 67 minutes. A new initiative called the Linear Project is being developed by the Japan Railways Group to facilitate travel across Japan at record-breaking speeds.…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on February 4 likened the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project to a “white elephant”, saying a decision on it would be taken after he was convinced it would boost industrial development in the State.In the second part of his interview to Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, Mr.…