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Japan's railways carried 9.147 billion passengers (260 billion passenger-kilometres) in the year 2013–14. [3] In comparison, Germany has over 40,000 km (25,000 mi) of railways, but carries only 2.2 billion passengers per year. [4] Because of the massive use of its railway system, Japan is home to 46 of the world's 50 busiest stations. [5]
List of railway lines in Japan lists existing railway lines in Japan alphabetically. The vast majority of Japanese railways are classified under two Japanese laws, one for railways (鉄道, tetsudō) and another for trams (軌道, kidō). The difference between the two is a legal, and not always substantial, one.
Under the non-automatic block system trains cannot leave a station without an appropriate token, even if the starting signal is clear. Home, starting and block signals on Japanese railways are usually lights composed of three colors (green, yellow and red). The composition of the lighted colors shows the speed limit of the protected section.
After the privatization of JNR in 1987, two Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies created new classes of diesel locomotives. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) classified its new class as DD19, using the JNR classification system, as it was only a rebuild of the Class DD17, which was built by JNR. On the other hand, Japan Freight Railway ...
Major private railways (大手私鉄): Any of the 15 private railways (excluding subways) considered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and others to be the largest private railways in Japan (by network length, ridership volume, and other metrics), providing critical urban rail service in the Greater Tokyo, Greater ...
The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as the JR Group (Jeiāru Gurūpu) or simply JR, is a group of railway companies in Japan that underwent division and privatization [1] of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.
The Japan Railways Group consists of the seven companies that were formed after the privatization of the Japanese National Railways.. Passenger. Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) (北海道旅客鉄道 (JR北海道))
The Japanese National Railways (日本国有鉄道, Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō or Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō), abbreviated JNR or Kokutetsu (国鉄), was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.