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Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in 2021. The new walk-through gates will work only with the Suica Mobile app, and not IC rechargeable metro cards or physical tickets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
JR East to introduce touchless ticket gates in spring 2028
Passengers using the Suica Mobile app will be able to walk through special ticket gates at 40 select stations without having to tap on receivers.
A maglev train exhibited at Maglev Exhibition Center in Tsuru, Yamanashi Prefecture.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 10, 2026
Maglev construction at Nagoya Station won’t be completed until at least 2033
JR Central plans to announce a new opening target for the delayed Chuo Shinkansen within this year.
A sniffer dog is employed to search for victims among the wrecked carriages of a crashed train in Urda, in the Spanish province of Toledo, on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2026
Second Japanese national confirmed dead in Spanish train crash
Spanish authorities have identified all 69 people killed in a high-speed train collision in central Spain last week.
Huge cranes lift one of the wrecked carriages of a train crash between a Renfe AVE train and an Iryo train, two days after the deadly accident in Urda in the province of Toledo, Spain, on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2026
Japanese national confirmed dead in Spanish train crash
Another Japanese citizen is believed to be one of the remaining unidentified victims in the collision that killed 69 people.
Cranes remove wrecked carriages of a train crash between a Renfe AVE train and an Iryo train, one day after the deadly accident in Urda, in the province of Toledo, on Thursday.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2026
Grieving Spain demands answers for latest rail disaster
The second high-speed train collision this year, following one in January that killed 46 people, has raised fresh questions about safety.
An East Japan Railway worker alongside one of two goats that the railway company has deployed to an area near Tokyo's Yotsuya Station in order to trim excess growth
JAPAN / Society
Oct 30, 2026
JR East’s new four-legged landscapers are proving to be a hit
A pair of young goats are part of a new environmentally friendly initiative to tackle overgrowth near Tokyo’s Yotsuya Station.
A truck crane at the site of a train crash between two high-speed trains in the province of Toledo, Spain, on Wednesday
WORLD
Oct 29, 2026
At least 68 people dead in Spain’s second major train crash this year
It was Spain’s second fatal rail crash this year and Europe’s deadliest since 2013.
Emergency services work at the site of a train collision between a high speed Renfe train and Iryo train south of Madrid on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2026
At least 30 people killed in collision between high-speed trains in Spain
A Castilla-La Mancha region spokesperson said 147 people had been traveling on the Iryo train and 397 on the Renfe train.
Employees at the MTR operations control center in Hong Kong earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Oct 20, 2026
MTR bets $5 billion on a Hong Kong city that doesn’t exist yet
The economic centerpiece of the Northern Metropolis’ development is a tech hub designed to be Hong Kong’s Silicon Valley.
A shinkansen bullet train arrives at Kumamoto Station on Oct. 9.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 16, 2026
Shinkansen helps Kyushu economy with fast connections and local development
A major transportation bottleneck was eliminated more than a decade ago when the line was fully completed.
Nursery school children wave to a train as the Hisatsu Orange Railway resumes full service on Tuesday in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, after sections of the line were suspended following an earthquake in July earthquake.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 13, 2026
All railway lines in areas affected by Kumamoto quake in July back in service
Train services on a section of the Hisatsu Orange Railway in Kumamoto Prefecture resumed Tuesday, 77 days after the July 28 earthquake.
Japan Airlines President Mitsuko Tottori offers flowers during a memorial ceremony near the 1985 JAL jumbo-jet crash site in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 12.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2026
Japan marks 20 years of tackling human error in public transportation
The transport safety management system requires transport operators to build and continuously improve their own safety management arrangements.
The new Supreme Class cabins on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines offer the first truly private way in decades to ride Japan's high-speed rails.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 5, 2026
A first look aboard the shinkansen’s new Supreme Class
From Oct. 1, select trains running between Tokyo and Hakata will offer the most luxurious way yet to travel on a bullet train.
Tobu Railway’s Shoji Kameyama (front), General Manager of Transportation, and Koichi Sato, General Manager of Facilities, bow as they give an interim report on the railway accident, at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2026
Improper work instructions behind Tochigi fatal train accident
The incident in August caused the deaths of four workers during weeding operations at a station.
A class C57 steam locomotive, nicknamed Kifujin, conducts a test run in the city of Yamaguchi on Saturday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2026
Iconic Japanese steam locomotive finishes major repairs after 6-year hiatus
The steam locomotive connecting Yamaguchi and Shimane prefectures will return to commercial operations Oct. 3.
Kumagawa Railroad in the city of Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, reopens its service in full on Sunday, six years after the railway was heavily damaged in a flood.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2026
Public-private railway fully reopens in Kumamoto six years after flooding
The 6-kilometer section between Hitoyoshi Onsen Station and Higo Nishinomura Station reopened after restoration work.
Mobile robotic trash bins during testing at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 18, 2026
今日吃瓜 busiest rail station tests robot bins
Shinjuku Station is a sprawling transport complex with multiple rail firms that serve more than 2.7 million passengers every day.
People wait to board the Kyushu Shinkansen after services resumed across the entire line at Shin-Yatsushiro Station in Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2026
All sections of Kyushu Shinkansen reopened after July quake
All sections on the high-speed line linking Hakata Station in Fukuoka Prefecture and Kagoshima-Chuo Station in Kagoshima Prefecture are operational.
JR Hokkaido President Yasuyuki Watanuki speaks at a news conference in Sapporo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 17, 2026
JR Hokkaido withdraws proposal to share costs for loss-making sections
The company faced opposition after suggesting it would continue to run train operations while municipalities would own and manage the tracks.
A locomotive of a passenger train burns following a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Sept. 9.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2026
Russian attacks on Ukraine railways escalating every week
Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovsky said Russia has started hitting parts of the network in the west — far from the front line.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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