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The Japan Private Railway Association classifies the following 16 companies as the major private railways of Japan. [14] These companies, in total, operate 2,870.1 kilometers of rail. In a one-year period from April 2009, a total of 9.46 billion passengers (118 billion passenger kilometers ) traveled by means of these major railways.
Chūō Main Line (East Japan Railway Company, Central Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Higashi Line (Common name. East Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Nishi Line (Common name. Central Japan Railway Company) Chūō-Sōbu Line (Common name. East Japan Railway Company)
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.
A JNR map from the October 1964 English-language timetable, showing the then-new Tokaido Shinkansen line (in red) and conventional lines A 0 series set in front of Mount Fuji. Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high-speed travel.
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)
In Japan, third-sector railways (第三セクター鉄道, dai-san sekutā tetsudō), sometimes translated as semi-public sector railways, are railways operated by a joint corporation that has been invested in by both public and private sectors, and which maintain a public–private partnership. [1]
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