Nemuro Station in Hokkaido was named Japan’s easternmost station after the Hokkaido Railway Company’s timetable ...

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) is operating a special train again this year on part of its Senmo Line to allow passengers to view the drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk.

SHIMUKAPPU, Hokkaido—A JR express train was filled to 60-percent capacity when it left Sapporo Station for Shimukappu in the central part of Hokkaido in December. After it stopped at Minami ...

As Japan’s population ages, cities like Yubari have to choose between finding new ways to attract more residents or focusing ...

As the number of users is unlikely to recover from a prolonged decline, JR Hokkaido has decided to close the station.

A senior official of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) issued an apology regarding an incident involving cars on a Tohoku ...

SAPPORO -- The problem of "overtourism," marked by an excessive concentration of travelers negatively impacting local ...

Dwight Ramos, Ray Parks Jr., and AJ Edu all recently helped their respective squads in their assignments in the 2024-25 ...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia agreed yesterday on a call with President Trump to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy ...

referring to JR East and JR Hokkaido, which is the owner of the Hayabusa train cars. As for the September decoupling, JR East ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 8 ...