A railway encyclopedia

Articles

196 in-depth, sourced articles on Japan's railways — every major line, rolling-stock series, named train, and operator. Search below, or browse by category.

On sources: where the English- and Japanese-language accounts of a subject differ, this site defers to the Japanese-language source — generally the fuller and more current record of Japanese railways.

Searches the title and full text of all 196 articles.

Lines 105

History, opening, timeline, and sources for each railway line.

Rolling stock 38

Shinkansen trainsets plus freight & other locomotives.

Train services 19

Named Shinkansen services — history, route, and rolling stock.

Operators 22

Company profiles — history, network, and fleet.

Through services 11

Through-running networks — trains crossing between systems.

Topics 1