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The secrets of the shinkansen

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Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

This is the third article we have released from Issue 23, which print subscribers started receiving last week. Not yet a subscriber? You can sign up for the magazine here. Japan is the land of the train. 28 percent of passenger kilometers in Japan are travelled by rail, more than anywhere else in the developed world. France achieves 10 percent, Germany 6.4 percent, and the United States just 0.25 percent. Travel in Japan is over a hundred times more likely to be by rail than travel in the United States. Japan’s vast railway network is divided between dozens of companies, nearly all of them…

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