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In the legal sense, there are two types (with several subcategories) of rail transportation systems in Japan: railway (鉄道, tetsudō) and tramway (軌道, kidō). Every public rail transportation system under government regulation in Japan is classified either as railway or tramway.
- 260 billion (2014)
- 30,625 km
- 7.589 billion (2014)
- Japan Railways Group
There have been four main stages: [1] Stage 1, from 1872, the first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, to the end of the Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906-07 to the end of World War II; Stage 3, from the postwar creation of Japanese National Railways to 1987;
Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 26,182 pages in the project. Our main category is Category:Rail transport in Japan. Many of these articles have been translated from the respective Japanese version (see the category on the Japanese Wikipedia ).
Nov 2, 2023 · Japan’s first railway route officially opened on the morning of October 14, 1872. Under a clear sky, a steam locomotive with nine cars, carrying Emperor Mutsuhito, government leaders, diplomats and other dignitaries, made its way from Tokyo’s Shimbashi Station to Yokohama Station.
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Apr 2, 2024 · Japanese: “New Trunk Line” Byname: bullet train. Japanese bullet train. Japan's Shinkansen (bullet train) passing on a bridge, with Mount Fuji in the background. Shinkansen, pioneer high-speed passenger rail system of Japan, with lines on the islands of Honshu, Kyushu, and Hokkaido.
Rail technology first reached Japanese shores in 1853, when Japanese people were astounded by the technical sophistication of a model of a Russian steam locomotive brought on a ship that landed in Nagasaki. Japan’s first train line opened nearly two decades later in 1872—twenty-nine kilometers of rail connecting Shimbashi in Tokyo with Yokohama.
