Though the new train is only intended for day trips, Mitooka didn’t hold back on fitting its opulent interior with shoji doors, lattice ceilings and even tatami mat floors. There is a capacity for 105 ...

KITA-KYUSHU, Fukuoka Prefecture--Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) will begin running its new "36+3" luxury sightseeing train on Oct. 16, which will take passengers across all seven prefectures in the ...

KITA-KYUSHU--Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) rolled out its new luxurious sightseeing train Kanpachi-Ichiroku that is taking passengers in comfort between Fukuoka and Oita prefectures. The special ...

FUKUOKA -- Kyushu Railway is resuming tours on a luxury sleeper train following last month's deadly earthquakes in southern Japan, which closed part of the route.

Luxury rail travel has always carried an air of nostalgia, a lingering connection to a time when the world moved at a slower, more deliberate pace. In Japan, where the shinkansen has redefined ...

Experiencing luxury at speed is a curious human fixation, and a kind of final frontier for the uber rich. But more decadent than hurtling through the sky eating sliced kiwi off a black slate is ...