Ballooning costs, inconvenient access and a local feud are clouding the future of the Kyushu Shinkansen Line’s Nishi-Kyushu route that will partially open on Sept. 23. The 66-kilometer course ...

JR West, a railway company of Japan, has begun connecting online and ticketless booking services ‘Express Booking’ and ‘Smart EX’ with the route search on Apple Map.

The opening of the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line on Sept ... arrived at Shin-Omura Station to complete the new route from Hokkaido that covered 10,700.7 kilometers over 24 days.