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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.
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)
N700S series Shinkansen train E235 series train on the Yamanote Line Tokyo Station in Tokyo Hiroden Tram in Hiroshima. Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in urban areas.
Sanyo Electric Railway Aboshi Line: 7 8.5 Total 49 63.2 53,144,000 2011 [40] J: West Japan Railway Company (JR West) [k] A Akō Line (Aioi ‒ Banshū Akō) 4 10.5 A Biwako Line (Kyōto ‒ Nagahama) 23 75.4 H Gakkentoshi Line (Kyōbashi ‒ Kizu) 24 55.4 Hagoromo Line (Ōtori ‒ Higashi-Hagoromo) 2 1.7 R Hanwa Line (Tennōji ‒ Wakayama) 35 ...
Sankō Line (West Japan Railway Company) (Closed on march 2018) Sano Line (Tobu Railway) San'yō Main Line (West Japan Railway Company, Kyushu Railway Company) San'yō Shinkansen (West Japan Railway Company) Sasaguri Line (Kyushu Railway Company) Sasebo Line (Kyushu Railway Company) Sassho Line (Hokkaido Railway Company) Sawara Line (Common name.
This is the name for the concept of using a single train that is designed to travel on both 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway lines and the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge used by Shinkansen train services in Japan. The trucks/bogies of the Gauge Change Train (GCT) allow the wheels to be unlocked from the axles, narrowed ...
JR Yamanote Line. East Japan Railway Company, or JR East, is the largest passenger railway company in the world. It operates trains throughout the Greater Tokyo area (as well as the rest of northeastern Honshū). In addition to operating some long-haul shinkansen ("bullet
1927: Tokyo Underground Railway Co., Ltd. (東京地下鉄道株式会社, Tōkyō Chika Tetsudō Kabushiki Gaisha) opens Japan's first underground line of the subway Ginza Line on 30 December 1927, publicizing it as "the first underground railway in the Orient." The distance of the line is only 2.2 km between Ueno and Asakusa.