Shinkansen is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shinkansen in a sentence
Shinkansen meaning
- A Japanese high-speed railway line.
- A high-speed passenger train which runs on such a line; a bullet train.
Using Shinkansen
- The main meaning on this page is: A Japanese high-speed railway line. | A high-speed passenger train which runs on such a line; a bullet train.
- In the example corpus, shinkansen often appears in combinations such as: the shinkansen, shinkansen bullet, shinkansen line.
Context around Shinkansen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shinkansen
- In this selection, "shinkansen" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hokkaido, joetsu, speedy, bullet, line and station stand out and add context to how "shinkansen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aboard a shinkansen last year and and a shinkansen line dedicated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shinkansen" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shinkansen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I will take the Shinkansen any day once completed. (9 words)
Take the Tokaido Shinkansen from Tokyo Station for the quickest way to travel to Atami. (15 words)
During the triennale, there will also be organized bus tours departing from Echigo-Yuzawa Shinkansen Station. (16 words)
They’re used to power the next generation of electric vehicles such as Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf and Tesla Inc.’s lineup of cars, and even new shinkansen trains use lithium-ion batteries as backup energy storage in case of emergency. (42 words)
Nagano’s Olympics cost $2.2 billion and ran over budget by over half a billion dollars, a figure that doesn’t include infrastructure — the shinkansen (bullet train) line from Tokyo to Nagano was built specifically for the Olympics — or hotel renovations. (42 words)
Unexpected construction delays and a tight labor market have made finishing the Hokkaido Shinkansen route to Sapporo by the end of the 2030 fiscal year problematic, although officials continue to say it will open on schedule. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
For those concerned, I've had no stinkeye going maskless on many JR shinkansen train trips the last three weeks.
I will take the Shinkansen any day once completed.
JR West operates the Shinkansen high-speed rail lines near Kansar, as well as commuter trains within the Osaka metropolitan network.
Unexpected construction delays and a tight labor market have made finishing the Hokkaido Shinkansen route to Sapporo by the end of the 2030 fiscal year problematic, although officials continue to say it will open on schedule.
As mentioned, it will run bullet trains for the Joetsu Shinkansen line by fiscal year 2028, which ends in March 2029.
Even small delays in Japan's much-vaunted bullet trains are rare, and more unusual still are snakes on board holding up the speedy shinkansen services.
Event organiser Kenta Iwana of the group Kowagarasetai, which translates to the "scare squad", said they wanted to "depict the normally safe, peaceful shinkansen -- something we take for granted -- collapsing in the blink of an eye".
Hello Kitty has been featured in animated series, video games and theme parks and even has an airplane and a Shinkansen line dedicated to her.
In one terrifying video being shared on social media, signs at the Shinkansen station in Ishikawa prefecture can be seen shaking off their hinges amid the powerful tremors.
On the Shinkansen network, which has grown to nine lines, the average delay is less than a minute.
Shinkansen bullet trains remained suspended in Kyushu and were also halted on the major route between Tokyo and Osaka, with operators warning of disruptions elsewhere.
The Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Nagoya were halted for the entire day, according to Central Japan Railway, a common response to typhoons here.
After arriving on the Nozomi Shinkansen, I took a brief taxi ride to the property at the edge of the Gion pedestrian area.
Take the Tokaido Shinkansen from Tokyo Station for the quickest way to travel to Atami.
A court Wednesday sentenced a man to life in prison over a random knife attack aboard a shinkansen last year that killed one passenger and injured two others.
The Shinkansen bullet train service was halted in one part of western Japan, as were all local train lines, and several highways were closed.
They’re used to power the next generation of electric vehicles such as Nissan Motor Co.’s Leaf and Tesla Inc.’s lineup of cars, and even new shinkansen trains use lithium-ion batteries as backup energy storage in case of emergency.
During the triennale, there will also be organized bus tours departing from Echigo-Yuzawa Shinkansen Station.
Male passengers in the shinkansen car that was attacked in June as it left Tokyo for Osaka came in for much tweeted abuse.
Nagano’s Olympics cost $2.2 billion and ran over budget by over half a billion dollars, a figure that doesn’t include infrastructure — the shinkansen (bullet train) line from Tokyo to Nagano was built specifically for the Olympics — or hotel renovations.
Common combinations with shinkansen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: