Looking for something to do while you're on break? Here are some of 2025 Golden Week Events in Japan from north to south.

Strong tremors of an earthquake were felt in Japan’s Kyushu region on Wednesday evening. According to the National Earthquake Science Center, on Wednesday (April 2, 2025), a 6.0 magnitude earthquake ...

Billing itself as the first luxury sleeper train touring England and Wales, this new train is scheduled to take to the rails ...

Oita, a scenic region known for its natural hot springs on the Japanese island of Kyushu, has recently renamed its air hub ...

JR Kyushu and JR West have released reservation trends for the upcoming Golden Week, anticipating peak outbound travel on May 3 and inbound travel on May 5. As of April 9, reserved seat bookings show ...

JR Kyushu has sold its high-speed Queen Beetle ferry to PanStar Line.com, a passenger ferry operator based in Busan, following a scandal involving the concealment of hull flooding. The ferry, which ...

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world ...

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 ...

Utilizing numerical simulations, researchers have succeeded in recreating the fluid dynamics of flowing cells like blood or ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu region on Wednesday at 7:34 PM (IST), according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The quake occurred at a depth of 30 km, with its epicentre ...