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Navigating the Tokyo railway and train network can be daunting at first. With careful planning and research, the railway system is the most convenient mode of transportation during your time in Japan.

The East Japan Railway Company logo. TOKYO -- Twenty-one train lines in the Japanese capital including the Yamanote Line will run later into the night during the Tokyo Olympic Games being held July 23 ...

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway Co. (JR East)'s Tokyo branch announced Dec. 13 that nine lines in the capital region will run all night over New Year's Eve to New Year's Day. The decision to lay on the ...

JR East on Saturday marked exactly 100 years of operation of the iconic Yamanote loop line train that encircles central Tokyo. Connecting with private railways entering from the outer suburbs, ...

Ikebukuro Station is one of Tokyo’s busiest rail hubs, with more than 2.5 million passengers passing through it on an average day. That makes it a major landmark in the city, so a lot of people were ...

All services on East Japan Railway's busy Yamanote Line in Tokyo were suspended Friday morning due to wire trouble, before being resumed later in the day. The inner loop service, in which trains run ...

Let’s get one thing straight: some train stations in Tokyo are so confusing that even locals routinely get lost in them. So you can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that when it comes to navigating ...