All Honshu articles – Page 5
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Aoimori Railway
The Aoimori and Iwate Galaxy railways were both created in 2001 to take over sections of the narrow gauge Tohoku main line when JR East’s Tohoku Shinkansen line was extended 96 km north from Morioka to Hachinohe on December 1 2002. Aoi Mori Railway runs local services between Metoki and ...
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Hiroshima Kosoku Kotsu (Astram Line)
Opened 1994. Single route with 22 stations. Construction of the rubber-tyred guided Astram transit system began in February 1987 as part of the city’s plans for hosting the 1994 Asian Games. The line opened on August 20 1994. It runs from the central terminus at Hondori (interchange with the city ...
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Chichibu Railway Co Ltd
First section opened in 1901 between Kumagaya and Yorii, 60 km northwest of Tokyo. The line now extends east from Kumagaya to connect with the Tobu Isesaki Line at Hanyu, and west to Mitsumine-guchi, serving the Nagatoro gorge and Chichibu mountains. Kumagaya and Yorii provide interchange to JR East. Chichibu ...
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Echigo Tokimeki Railway Co (ETR)
This third sector railway was established in 2010 ready to take over local passenger services after opening of the parallel Hokuriku shinkansen, and now runs two lines in the region. Operation of JR West’s former Hokuriku Main Line between Naoetsu, terminus of JR East’s Shin-Etsu line, west to Ichiburi transferred ...
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Hankai Denki Kido
First line opened 1900; two-route tramway serving 39 stops. See Osaka network map. Wholly-owned by Nankai Electric Railway, the tramway serves south Osaka and Sakai city. The main Hankai line runs from Ebisucho on Osaka metro’s Sakaisuji line south via Sumiyoshi to Hamadera (14·1 km). The Uemachi line connects Tennoji ...
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Keifuku Denki Tetsudo (Randen)
Tramway opened in 1910. ‘Y’-shaped network serving 22 stops. Operates the Arashiyama main line (7·2 km, 13 stops) and Kitano branch (3·8 km, 9 stops) tramways in western Kyoto on mostly segregated alignment. The system interchanges with Kyoto subway’s Tozai line at Tenjingawa, and the Hankyu Railway Kyoto main line ...
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Hiroshima Dentetsu (Hiroden)
Conventional tramway opened 1912 with inter-urban line opened 1922, together serving 77 stops. Japan’s most extensive tram network serves central Hiroshima, comprising a loop and six radial branches. There is interchange with the Astram rubber-tyred metro line at Hondori in the city centre. On August 3 2025 a new approach ...
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East Japan Railway (JR East)
JR East was created in 1987 when Japanese National Railways was restructured, and its full shareholding listed in 2002. The largest member of the JR Group*, it serves the east of Honshu comprising the heavily-populated Kanto region around Tokyo, the northeast Tohoku region and the eastern part of Chubu region. ...
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Echizen Railway
This third sector railway was set up in 2002, and on February 1 2003 took over operation of Keifuku Electric Railway’s network of local lines centred on Fukui, Honshu, which had been closed in 2001. The operational lines are the Mikuni Awara Line, running 28 km north to Mikuniminato, and ...