Liste des chemins de fer japonais - Définition

Il existe presque 200 compagnies de transport sur rail au Japon.

Japan Railway : entreprises issues des anciens Japanese National Railways)

• Central Japan Railway Company
• East Japan Railway Company
• Hokkaido Railway Company
• Kyushu Railway Company
• Shikoku Railway Company
• West Japan Railway Company
• Japan Freight Railway Company

Chemins de fer privés : les quinze grands

• Hankyu Railway
• Hanshin Electric Railway
• Keihan Electric Railway
• Keihin Kyuko Electric Railway
• Keio Electric Railway
• Keisei Electric Railway
• Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu)
• Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu)
• Nankai Electric Railway
• Nishi-Nihon Railway
• Odakyu Electric Railway
• Sagami Railway
• Seibu Railway
• Tobu Railway
• Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway

Autres chemins de fer privés

• Eizan Electric Railway
• Kishu Railway
• Kobe Electric Railway
• Mizuma Railway
• Nose Electric Railway
• Ohmi Railway
• Sanyo Electric Railway

Chemins de fer secondaires

• Asa Kaigan Railway
• Chizu Express
• Hojo Railway
• Hokuetsu Express
• Ihara Railway
• Ise Railway
• Kita Kinki Tango Railway
• Kobe Rapid Railway
• Kurihara Den'en Railway
• Miki Railway
• Nishikigawa Railway
• Noto Railway
• Shigaraki Kougen Railway
• Tosa Kuroshio Railway
• Wakasa Railway

Métros

• Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau (Métro municipal de K?be)
• Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau (Métro municipal de Ky?to)
• Nagoya City Transportation Bureau (Métro municipal de Nagoya)
• Métro de T?ky?
• Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau (Métro municipal d’?saka)
• Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation

Monorails

• Monorail d'Inuyama
• Monorail de Kitakyushu
• Maihama Resort Line
• Monorail d'Osaka
• Monorail de Tama Toshi
• Monorail de Tokyo
• Yui Rail

Tramways

• Sapporo
• Hakodate
• Tokyo
• Toyohashi
• Toyama
• Takaoka
• Gifu (fermé en 2005)
• Kyoto
• Osaka
• Okayama
• Hiroshima (le plus grand réseau de tram du Japon)
• Matsuyama
• Kochi
• Nagasaki
• Kumamoto
• Kagoshima

Il faut y ajouter quelques lignes interurbaines qui servent de tram à l'intérieur des villes

• Enoden
• Fukutetsu
• Chikuho

Nouveaux systèmes de transport urbain

• Aichi Rapid Transit
• Hiroshima Rapid Transit
• Kobe New Transit (Portliner, Rokkoliner)
• Nagoya Guideway Bus
• New Tram (Nanko Port Town Line)
• Osakako Transportation System (OTS)
• Saitama Shintoshi Transit
• Skyrail Service
• Tokadai New Transit
• Yokohama Shintoshi Transit
• Yurikamome