Backyard Travel Release New China Tour: Shanghai at a Glance

Anyone who hasn't been to Shanghai yet must come if only to experience the 30km Maglev high speed train journey from Shanghai Airport to Pudong. It took IMR just 8 minutes to cover the 30km and we touched 431kph along the way - awesome! Imagine ...

Print: Jun 12, 2013 Last Modfied: Jun 12, 2013 Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) will in September begin test runs paving the way for the launch of a magnetically levitated train line between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027, marking a milestone in ...

SHANGHAI Metro and maglev users can now avail of a discounted coupon ticket when they use both lines of transport. The ticket will be similar to the one used in Hong Kong, mainly targeting air travelers and out-of-town visitors who travel from ...

Japan's floating bullet trains - which will travel at up speeds of up to 500kmph - have undergone their first test runs. The magnetic levitation, or 'maglev' trains, use state-of-the-art technology to reach mind-blowing speeds. The teams ...

Japan tests its 500 kmph "floating" bullet train India TV webteam Tokyo: These are the trains of the future, designed to travel with magentic levitation technology - trains that "float" at a breakneck speed of 500 kilometres per hour. Japan displayed the ...

Style: Commentary Category: Product Developments Few would argue that the Japanese are world leaders in train technology (well, maybe the French would…and with some justification, their TGV rail network is impressive and technically as ...

By Two significant events took place while I was in Japan last month. The Sakura (cherry blossoms) bloomed and the Shinkansen (literally New Stem Line) saw the addition of the fastest train yet. Called the Hayabusa (Peregrine Falcon in Japanese), ...

distributed by noodls on 04/15/2013 22:40 Print Print Sharing and Personal Tools Please select the service you want to use: Public link Please use the above public link if you want to share this noodl on another website The city plans to build a ...

China's President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama appear to have reached agreement on some of their respective visions after two-day talks in California. But there's a clear stumbling block between the two superpowers: cyber ...