Luxury Train Launch
East Japan Railway's new luxury sleeper train has departed on its first journey from Tokyo. The 10-car "Train Suite Shiki-shima" left Ueno Station carrying 33 passengers…
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Map of Tokyo trains in real time
Take a look at this interactive map of Tokyo transportation that displays positions of all the trains in real time. It looks like the website is quite old (2012) and it is in Japanese. So I am not 10…
Bridgestone announces airless tires for bicycles
Bridgestone has announced the latest in its line of “airless tires” that do not require inflation, this time adapting the technology for bicycles. The second generation of the Air Free Concept w…
Electric Mugen monsters debut at the 44th Tokyo Motorcycle Show
mugen, the company, best known for designing and distributing aftermarket performance parts for Honda vehicles, has for the past five years been building bikes to compete in the TT Zero: the world…
JR East Unveils Luxury Sleeper Train Designed by Ferrari Designer Ken Okuyama
It’s been almost 3 years since the announcement that JR East was investing 5 billion yen to create a luxury sleeper train. Yesterday, that train was unveiled at a ceremony in Tokyo. Dubbed the Train …
All Tokyo subway cars to have surveillance cameras installed ahead of 2020 Games
Surveillance cameras will be installed on each of the roughly 3,800 subway cars in Tokyo, their operators said Tuesday, part of an effort to improve public safety ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and…
Japan takes a big step toward widespread drone delivery service
Japan, perhaps more than any nation on Earth, has a deep history with autonomous drones. Its companies have been using them for decades to assist with agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and cons…
Autos of Tokyo Auto Salon 2017
Another gallery of Tokyo Auto Salon photos.
Docomo to offer AI smartphone system to support bus operations from 2019
NTT Docomo Inc. will begin offering by March 2019 an artificial intelligence-based smartphone system that promises more efficient bus services. Using a smartphone application, people will a…
Tokyo eyes self-driven delivery by 2030 in industrial AI plan
Autonomous trucks and drones should be handling deliveries in Japan by 2030, the government says, showing a path forward for an overburdened field as part of a timeline for a more fully automated soc…