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Ban'etsu-Sai Line (East Japan Railway Company) Ban'etsu-To Line (East Japan Railway Company) Bantan Line (West Japan Railway Company) Beppu Rakutenchi Cable Line (Okamoto MFG) Bessho Line (Ueda Electric Railway) Bisai Line (Nagoya Railroad) Biwako Line (Nickname. West Japan Railway Company) Blue Line (Nickname. Yokohama City Transportation Bureau)
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.
Railway lines have adopted station numbering in preparation for Tokyo 2020, making it easier for tourists to distinguish the stations. Station numbering was previously exclusive to subway lines. All the railway and tram lines in Japan are named by the operators. In principle (with some exceptions), a section of railway has only one name.
Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high-speed travel. Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds due to technical limitations of narrow-gauge rail.
This category collects Japanese railway lines. ... Pages in category "Railway lines in Japan" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total.
List of BS-style route diagrams used for railway lines in Japan Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C.
Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway was debuted by JNR in 1964. By the end of JNR in 1987, four lines had been constructed: Tōkaidō Shinkansen 515.4 km (320.3 mi), completed in 1964 Sanyō Shinkansen 553.7 km (344.1 mi), completed in 1975 Tōhoku Shinkansen 492.9 km (306.3 mi), as of 1987 Jōetsu Shinkansen
The Chūō Main Line (Japanese: 中央本線, Hepburn: Chūō-honsen), commonly called the Chūō Line, is one of the major trunk railway lines in Japan.It connects Tokyo and Nagoya, although it is the slowest direct railway connection between the two cities; the coastal Tōkaidō Main Line is slightly faster, and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen is currently the fastest rail link between the cities.