The country that invented the bullet train now has something much faster: the floating bullet train. It’s called a “maglev” train, for “magnetic levitation.” Instead of wheels: magnets. Instead of an ...

A maglev train in Japan reached a record-breaking speed of 590Kph (366Mph) this week, according to the Central Japan Railway Company-- smashing a record that’s been held for 12 years. The seven-car ...

YAMANASHI, JAPAN — The inside of the train car goes eerily quiet at 93 miles per hour, a familiar rattle disappearing into a hum as it lifts four inches off the ground, levitating and speeding through ...

Buried beneath Japan’s mountains, a 500 km/h levitating train is being built to connect Tokyo and Osaka in under an hour. Using superconducting magnets and linear motors, this SCMaglev system operates ...

A test run takes place with Mount Fuji in the backdrop. Credit: Central Japan Railway Company. Ever since it was launched in time for the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Shinkansen has remained a ...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Central Japan Railway, known as JR Central, has ambitions to take its proprietary magnetic levitation technology to markets overseas, President Shunsuke Niwa says.