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refers to Banetsu West Line: JR East Niigata - Aizu-Wakamatsu: 1999– Dinostar: portmanteau derived from the English word "dinosaur" for which Fukui is famous and the word "star" [4] JR-West Fukui – Kanazawa: 2015–2024 Enoshima: refers to Enoshima: Odakyu Shinjuku – Fujisawa – Katase-Enoshima: 1964– Fujikawa: refers to Fuji River: JR ...
K. Kamiiida Line; Karasuma Line; Kashihara Line; Keifuku Electric Railroad; Keihan Ishiyama Sakamoto Line; Keihan Katano Line; Keihan Keishin Line; Keihan Main Line
Jōetsu Shinkansen (East Japan Railway Company) Jōhana Line (West Japan Railway Company) Jōhoku Line (Central Japan Railway Company (tracks and services), Tokai Transport Service Company (services)) Jōhoku Line (Iyo Railway) Jōmō Line (Jōmō Electric Railway) Jōnan Line (Iyo Railway) Jōshin Line (Jōshin Dentetsu) Jōsō Line (Kantō ...
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.
There are two standard-gauge lines not technically classified as Shinkansen lines but run Shinkansen trains as they use tracks leading to Shinkansen storage/maintenance yards: Hakata Minami Line (Hakata – Hakataminami) Gala-Yuzawa Line – technically a branch of the Jōetsu Line – (Echigo-Yuzawa – Gala-Yuzawa)
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
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The Sanyō Shinkansen serves as the backbone of intercity rail transport connecting Hakata and Kokura Stations to Honshu. Kyūshū Shinkansen lines are completed on March 12, 2011, running to Kagoshima. There are 33 operating passenger rail lines and a tourist-oriented cable car line in the Fukuoka-Kitakyushu area .