Hakuba Valley, in Nagano Prefecture, has Olympic-level skiing, onsens, and stunning alpine views—all for under $70 a day, just a few hours from Tokyo.

Experience Japan's fastest bullet train! Travel in first class from Tokyo to Hokkaido on the Shinkansen E5 Hayabusa, reaching ...

For a country comprising 14,125 islands, you may think travelling around by land and sea could be a painstaking, time-consuming task to navigate. Nope, not in Japan. Besides its extensive train ...

Stone tools found in some of the earliest settlements in the Americas are challenging the prevailing theory of when the first migrations to the region happened. These tools, probably used as spear ...

In July, Sound Transit announced an “enterprise initiative” intended to ensure the agency “can deliver the greatest benefits of ST3 within available financial capacity.” The expected result is an ...

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...

Final testing is underway for the new Federal Way Link Extension, which is set to open in about five weeks. It will add 7.8 miles and three new stations at Kent Des Moines, Star Lake, and Federal Way ...

JAPAN: Tokyo Metro is working to introduce what it calls 'GoA2·5' train control on the Marunouchi Line, the operator has told ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Sound Transit’s long-awaited south-end light rail expansion is almost here. In just over five weeks, three new stations are scheduled to open, connecting more communities from ...

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

At first glance, the passenger rail systems in Seattle and Tokyo have nothing in common. Seattle has seven passenger rail lines (1 Line, 2 Line, S Line, N Line, First Hill Line, South Lake Union ...