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Ōsaka – Yonago (via San'in Main Line) 1968 – Oct 2004 Ginga: JR-West Tokyo – Ōsaka 1950 – Mar 2008 Hakkōda: JR East Ueno – Aomori(via Tohoku Main Line) 1961 – Dec 1993 (daily operation) / Aug 1998 (temporary service) Hamanasu: JR Hokkaido: Aomori – Sapporo 1955 – Mar 2016 Kitaguni: JR-West Ōsaka – Niigata: 1968 – Jan ...
Tōkaidō Main Line (East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company, West Japan Railway Company) Tōkaidō Shinkansen (Central Japan Railway Company) Tōkō Line (Freight. Nagoya Rinkai Railway) Tokoname Line (Nagoya Railroad) Tokushima Line (Shikoku Railway Company) Tōkyō Monorail Haneda Line (Tokyo Monorail)
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.
Rush hour at Ueno Station, JR Keihin–Tōhoku Line and JR Yamanote Line. Keikyū Main Line Kominato Railway Line JR Kyushu Shinkansen. Kabe Line (West Japan Railway Company); Kada Line (Nankai Electric Railway)
Shinkansen (新幹線) in Japanese means 'new trunk line' or 'new main line', but this word is used to describe both the railway lines the trains run on and the trains themselves.
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
Although the line uses Shinkansen equipment, trains are officially designated as limited express trains. [2] In practice, however, most services are extensions of San'yō Shinkansen Kodama services. The Kyushu Shinkansen, opened on 12 March 2011, shares part of the route. The trip from Hakata to Hakataminami takes ten minutes and costs ¥300.
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.