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Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1 Osaka Municipal Subway Line 1 (Midōsuji Line). Line 1 (Chiba Urban Monorail); Line 1 (Astram Line) (Hiroshima Rapid Transit); Line 1 (Blue Line) (Yokohama City Transportation Bureau)
Transport in Japan is also very expensive in international comparison, reflecting high tolls and taxes, particularly on automobile transport. [2] Japan's spending on roads has been large. [3] The 1,200,000 kilometres (750,000 mi) of paved road are the main means of transport. [4] Traffic in Japan drives on the left.
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.
Tetsudō/kidō also include (non-funicular) cable cars, horsecars, and handcars, but those modes of transportation have already disappeared from the country. The list basically shows line names without operator names. When the official line name does include the operator name, the line is listed twice, with and without the operator.
Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau (福岡市交通局, Fukuoka-shi Kōtsūkyoku) is a public organization of transportation in Fukuoka, Japan. The organization operates subways . It was founded in 1973.
The Yamanote Line and Chūō Line (Rapid) are not subway lines, but a surface commuter loop line (Yamanote Line) and a cross-city line that operate with metro-like frequencies. They are owned by JR East , act as key transportation arteries in central Tokyo, and are often marked on Tokyo subway maps.
Major private railways (大手私鉄): Any of the 15 private railways (excluding subways) considered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and others to be the largest private railways in Japan (by network length, ridership volume, and other metrics), providing critical urban rail service in the Greater Tokyo, Greater ...
By an act of the Diet of Japan, on April 1, 1987, JNR was privatized and divided into seven railway companies, six passenger and one freight, collectively called the Japan Railways Group or JR Group. Long-term liabilities of JNR were taken over by the Japanese National Railway Settlement Corporation.