[4] All Nozomi through runs (over the full route between Tokyo and Hakata) were scheduled to use the N700 series exclusively by 2009.

From the start of the revised timetable on 17 March 2012, all regularly scheduled Nozomi services, including runs limited only to the Tokaido Shinkansen, were operated by N700 series sets.

[7] In another announcement made on 14 February 2024, JR West revealed plans to convert four existing 16-car N700 series sets into 8-car formations.

[8] This move is to be made in a bid to retire four of the remaining 500 series sets on the San'yo Shinkansen.

[10] The new version is externally identical to the existing N700 series sets, with the addition of new "N700A" logos on each odd-numbered car.

[11] The new trains include modified brake discs, bogie vibration detection, and ATC improvements.

[15] The first set, G1, was delivered to Hamamatsu in August 2012, with test running commencing on the Tokaido Shinkansen the following month.

[17] The prototype set Z0 was used as a JR Central test train with cars numbered in the -9000 series, and was not used in revenue service.

[17] The N700-7000 series variant are 8-car sets operated by JR-West on through-running Sakura and Mizuho services between Shin-Ōsaka and Kagoshima-Chūō on the Kyushu Shinkansen since 12 March 2011.

[28] External livery is shiraai (白藍) pale blue intended to evoke the colour of traditional porcelain with indigo and gold bodyside lining.

[27] As of 1 April 2016[update], the fleet consists of 19 sets, all based at Hakata Shinkansen Depot.

[32] As of 1 April 2016[update], the fleet consists of 11 sets, all based at Kumamoto Shinkansen Depot.

[17] This was a proposed export version of the N700 series design announced by JR Central Chairman Yoshiyuki Kasai at an international high-speed railway symposium held in Nagoya on 16 November 2009.

[33] Nominally specified as an 8-car set with a maximum operating speed of 330 km/h (205 mph), the train can be configured in lengths from 6 to 16 cars to suit customer requirements.

[34][35] The same model was being considered in the developing Houston–Dallas Texas Central Railway, before focus shifted to the N700S due to its inherently modular construction, and higher top speed.

[36] On 16 November 2009, JR Central conducted a late-night high-speed demonstration run using N700 series trainset Z0, recording a maximum speed of 332 km/h (206 mph) on the Tokaido Shinkansen between Maibara and Kyōto.

[40] The smell was detected at Kokura Station, but was ordered by the operational centre to continue service until Nagoya which JR West later admitted was a "big danger".

[42] It was the first "serious incident" involving any Shinkansen, and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism reported that the train could have derailed had it continued on service and the carriage frame broke.

[40] An investigation by JR West implicated companies involved in the construction of the trainset, which included Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nippon Steel and Mitsubishi Electric.

Following the events JR West is planning to gradually replace all the bogies that were provided by Kawasaki.