The transport ministry gave administrative guidance Tuesday to East Japan Railway (JR East) over a recent series of problems, including service disruptions on its Yamanote and Joban lines. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

East Japan Railway Co President Yoichi Kise says the company will hire more technical staff and spend more on maintenance to prevent a repeat of service suspensions that hit the Yamanote and Joban ...

TOKYO -- A power outage hit JR Ueno Station on the morning of Jan. 30, halting rapid and local services on sections of the JR Joban Line. An overhead wire on the Joban Line platform was found to be ...

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 ...

A destroyed car and an express train are seen after a collision on Friday in Mito. - Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun MITO, (Japan): The driver of a car died in a collision with an express train at a ...