List of urban rail systems in Japan

The list of urban rail systems in Japan lists urban rail transit systems in Japan, organized by metropolitan area (都市圏), including number of stations, length (km), and average daily and annual ridership volume. Data is shown only for those areas designated as major metropolitan areas (大都市圏) by the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Considerations

There are several considerations for the data presented in this list.

Station count

Data is broken down at the line level, then rolled up for each specific railway operator. The total station count for each operator is a "unique station" count—an interchange or transfer station between two lines operated by the same company is counted as a single station. As a result, summing together the station counts for all of the lines under a single railway operator will generally yield a value greater than the total station count cited for the operator.

Some station pairs are officially considered interchanges by their respective railway operators despite having different names (e.g., Tameike-Sannō and Kokkai-gijidō-mae on the Tokyo Metro and Tenjin and Tenjin-Minami on the Fukuoka City Subway). As such stations have different names, however, they are counted as separate stations in this list.

Length

In a similar fashion to the station count, length is counted as route kilometers, but only considers "unique" segments. The following considerations are relevant for the lengths referenced in the tables.

Intra-company considerations

Generally, multiple-track sections classified under the same line name and without operational segregation into separate lines are only counted once, not twice. Examples include the quadruple-track sections of the Keihan Main Line and Tōbu Isesaki Line, which are only counted once because fast (i.e., limited-stop) and slow (i.e., local or all-stop) services are branded together as a single line, not separately as distinct lines.

Other cases include double junctions where a double-track branch line ties into a double-track main line, permitting interlining of the branch line with the main line. Examples include Keiō Sagamihara Line trains that continue past Chōfu Station onto the Keiō Line. In this situation, the trackage of the Keiō Sagamihara Line is counted as only the section between Chōfu and Hashimoto Station, while the double-track section east of Chōfu is counted under the Keiō Line, following traditional conventions for railway line nomenclature in Japan.

Likewise, double-track segments shared by lines under the same operator are only counted once. Examples include the Yamanote Freight Line between Ikebukuro and Ōsaki, a segment shared by the Saikyō Line and Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. In this situation, the trackage is counted only once, under the Saikyō Line. Similarly, tabulations for the larger tram systems with a high degree of interlining, such as Hiroshima Electric Railway, also consider only unique segments, and sections where multiple routes overlap are only counted once.

However, if there is some reasonable segregation of operations or distinction between lines, the trackage is counted more than once. Examples include the various quadruple-track sections of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) that provide segregated local and rapid services (e.g., Chūō Rapid Line vs. Chūō-Sōbu Line). Here, the route-kilometers are counted twice, once under the Chūō Rapid Line and again under the local Chūō-Sōbu Line.

Other situations include quadruple-track sections at the confluence of two distinct double-track lines, such as the Ōsaka Uehommachi – Fuse quadruple-track section of the Kintetsu network in central Ōsaka, officially designated as part of the Osaka Line but actually two lines (the Osaka Line and Nara Line) sharing a single right-of-way west of Fuse. A similar situation applies for many JR East lines—the Yamanote Line and Keihin-Tōhoku Line officially use tracks classified as part of the Tōkaidō Main Line and Tōhoku Main Line, but that are fully segregated from the tracks used by the respective services operating under the names "Tōkaidō Line" and "Utsunomiya Line" / "Takasaki Line".

Cross-company considerations

As a general rule, trackage used by one company but owned by another company as part of a trackage rights or Through Train (直通運転) (often translated as through-service) agreement is not counted under the first company. For example, trackage on the Toei Asakusa Line is not counted under Keikyu Corporation, Keisei Electric Railway, or the Hokusō Railway, despite the fact that all three operate their trains on the Asakusa Line. However, this list makes some exceptions to this rule, the most notable being the Keisei-Takasago – Inba-Nihon-Idai section of the Keisei Narita Airport Line, which is shared with trains operated by Hokusō Railway but owned partially by Hokusō Railway (Keisei-Takasago – Komuro) and Chiba New Town Railway (Komuro – Inba-Nihon-Idai). This shared trackage is counted once under Hokusō Railway and again under Keisei Electric Railway.

Similar exceptions include trackage owned by third-sector railways that do not own any of their own rolling stock and instead contract out train operations to through-servicing operators. Notable examples include the double-track approach into Narita Airport, which is owned by the third-sector Narita Airport Rapid Railway. All trains on this railway, however, are operated by either JR East or Keisei Electric Railway, with each operator getting dedicated usage of one of the two tracks into the Airport. In this situation, the JR East single-track section is counted in the JR total, while the Keisei single-track section is counted in the Keisei total.

Ridership

Both average daily and annual ridership are included, because only average daily ridership or annual ridership (not both) is available for some operators. In cases where data for only one of the two is available, care has been taken to not extrapolate the passenger volume to obtain the other, as there is a potential margin of error when attempting to derive average daily ridership from annual ridership (which is usually rounded to the nearest thousand passengers) and natural disasters or other unforeseen situations may force some operators to shut down for extended periods of time, as happened with the Sendai Subway in the days following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Categories

For readability and ease of comparison across metropolitan areas, systems within each metropolitan area are broken down into the following categories:

  • Subways are divided into two types: publicly operated and privately owned, and are grouped together with each other regardless of ownership. See 日本の地下鉄 for more details.
    • Publicly operated subways (公営地下鉄): Systems generally considered "subways" and operated directly by government agencies at the city (e.g., Kobe Municipal Subway) or prefecture (e.g., Toei Subway) level.
    • Privately owned subways (民営地下鉄): Systems generally considered "subways" that are owned by private operators (e.g., Tokyo Metro), as well as third-sector (semi-public) subways (e.g., Minatomirai Line).
  • 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 Nagoya, Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, and Fukuoka-Kitakyūshū areas. Japan Railways Group operators such as JR East or West Japan Railway Company (JR West) are generally not considered major private railways because they are descended from the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR), despite their size and their status now as private, for-profit railways, following the dissolution of JNR in 1984.
  • Semi-major private railways (準大手私鉄): Any of the eight private railways considered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and others to be intermediate in size, smaller than the major private railways but larger in scale than the medium and small private railways (中小私鉄). Examples include Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway and Sanyo Electric Railway. Like the major private railways, they provide critical urban rail service in the metropolitan areas.
  • Japan Rail metropolitan network: Urban rail services operated by Japan Rail Group companies. While JR Group companies administer networks spanning multiple regions and operate various long-distance and intercity services such as limited expresses and Shinkansen high-speed rail, services in metropolitan areas are often focused on providing urban and suburban transit. JR East, for example, is the largest single urban rail operator in the world, carrying around 14 million passengers daily on its extensive rail network in Greater Tokyo.
  • Other major railways: Any other major railways not fitting any of the above four categories. Examples include the Tsukuba Express and the Enoshima Electric Railway.
  • Other minor railways: Any other systems which provide rail service in the metropolitan area but do not fall into the above categories. Examples include tourist-heavy lines like the Disney Resort Line (a monorail line primarily serving the Tokyo Disney Resort), local people mover systems such as the Yamaman Yūkarigaoka Line (a small automated guideway transit system primarily serving to connect a new town development with a major suburban railway station), or other minor systems like the Mizuma Railway (a minor private railway in suburban Osaka).

List

Fukuoka‒Kitakyushu

Urban rail systems in Fukuoka-Kitakyushu
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Fukuoka City Subway
Kūkō Line 13 13.1
Hakozaki Line 7 4.7
Nanakuma Line 16 12.0 62,917 2010
Total 35 29.8 348,319 2010 127,136,349 2010
P Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) Nishitetsu Tenjin Ōmuta Line 49 74.8
Nishitetsu Dazaifu Line 3 2.4
Nishitetsu Amagi Line 12 17.9
Nishitetsu Kaizuka Line 10 11.0 33,484 2010
Total 72 106.1 542,994 2010 103,209,000 2010
J
Kyūshū Railway Company (JR Kyūshū)
 JK  Chikuhi Line (Meinohama ‒ Karatsu) 19 42.6
 JC  Fukuhoku Yutaka Line (Hakata ‒ Kurosaki) 27 66.6
 JJ  Gotōji Line (Tagawa-Gotōji ‒ Shin-Iizuka) 6 13.3
 JG  Haruda Line (Chikuhō Line) (Keisen ‒ Haruda) 5 20.8
 JI  Hita-Hikosan Line (Jōno ‒ Tagawa-Gotōji) 11 30.0
 JA 
 JB 
Kagoshima Main Line (Mojikō ‒ Arao) 60 151.6
 JK  Karatsu Line (Karatsu ‒ Nishi-Karatsu) 2 2.2
 JD  Kashii Line (Saitozaki ‒ Umi) 16 25.4
 JH  Nagasaki Main Line (Tosu ‒ Saga) 8 25.0
 JF  Nippō Main Line (Kokura ‒ Yukuhashi) 10 25.0
 JA  San'yō Main Line (Moji ‒ Shimonoseki) 2 6.3
 JG  Wakamatsu Line (Chikuhō Line) (Wakamatsu ‒ Orio) 6 10.8
Total 157 491.1
M Kitakyushu Monorail Kitakyushu Monorail 13 8.8 30,260 2010 11,044,879 2010
O Amagi Railway Amagi Railway Amagi Line 11 13.7 3,700 2008 1,348,000 2008
Chikuhō Electric Railroad Chikuhō Electric Railroad Line 21 16.0 13,549 2010
Heisei Chikuhō Railway Heisei Chikuhō Railway Ita Line 15 16.1    
Heisei Chikuhō Railway Itoda Line 6 6.8
Heisei Chikuhō Railway Tagawa Line 16 26.3
Total 35 49.2 1,915,683 2010

Hiroshima

Urban rail systems in Hiroshima
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
J
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
 P  Geibi Line (Hiroshima ‒ Karuga) 9 20.6
 B  Kabe Line (Yokogawa ‒ Aki-Kameyama) 14 15.6
 Y  Kure Line (Hiro ‒ Kaitaichi) 11 26.8
 G 
 R 
San'yō Main Line (Iwakuni ‒ Shiraichi) 27 82.2
Total 58 145.2
M Hiroshima Electric Railway (Hiroden) Hiroden Main Line 20 5.4
Hiroden Ujina Line 20 5.7
Hiroden Eba Line 7 2.6
Hiroden Hakushima Line 5 1.2
Hiroden Minami Line (Hijiyama Line) 7 2.5
Hiroden Yokogawa Line 5 1.4
Hiroden Miyajima Line 22 16.1
Total 78 34.9 101,000 2010 36,852,000 2010
Hiroshima Rapid Transit Astram Line 21 18.4 50,708 2010 18,508,279 2010
O Nishikigawa Railway Nishikigawa Railway Nishikigawa Seiryū Line 12 32.7 514,000 2009
Skyrail Service Skyrail Midorizaka Line 3 1.3 514,000 2009

Nagoya (Chūkyō)

Urban rail systems in Greater Nagoya
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Nagoya Municipal Subway
Higashiyama Line 22 20.6    
Meijō Line 28 26.4
Meikō Line 7 6.0
Tsurumai Line 20 20.4
Sakura-dōri Line 21 19.1
Kami-iida Line 2 0.8
Total 87 93.3 421,584,815 2010
P
Kintetsu Railway (Kintetsu)
 E  Nagoya Line 44 78.8    
 K  Yunoyama Line 10 15.4
 L  Suzuka Line 5 8.2
 M  Yamada Line 14 28.3
 M  Toba Line 5 13.2
 M  Shima Line 16 24.5
Total 89 168.4

Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu)
 NH  Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line 60 99.8    
 TH  Meitetsu Takehana Line 9 10.3
 TH  Meitetsu Hashima Line 2 1.3
 BS  Meitetsu Bisai Line 22 30.9
 TB  Meitetsu Tsushima Line 8 11.8
 KG  Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line 18 17.6
 IY  Meitetsu Inuyama Line 17 26.8
 HM  Meitetsu Hiromi Line 11 22.3
 KM  Meitetsu Komaki Line 14 20.6
 CH  Meitetsu Chikkō Line 2 1.5
 TA  Meitetsu Tokoname Line 23 31.5
 TA  Meitetsu Airport Line 3 4.2
 KC  Meitetsu Kōwa Line 19 28.8
 KC  Meitetsu Chita New Line 6 13.9
 TT  Meitetsu Toyota Line 8 15.2
 MY  Meitetsu Mikawa Line (Sanage ‒ Chiryū) 23 39.8
 MU  Meitetsu Mikawa Line (Chiryū ‒ Hekinan)
 GN  Meitetsu Nishio Line 14 24.7
 GN  Meitetsu Gamagōri Line 10 17.6
 TK  Meitetsu Toyokawa Line 5 7.2
 ST  Meitetsu Seto Line 20 20.6
Total 275 444.9 344,382,000 2011
J
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
 CF  Chūō Main Line (Nagoya ‒ Nakatsugawa) 20 79.9
 CD  Iida Line (Toyohashi ‒ Hon-Nagashino) 19 32.1
 CJ  Kansai Main Line (Nagoya ‒ Kameyama) 18 59.9
Kisei Main Line (Kameyama ‒ Taki) 10 42.5
Sangū Line (Taki ‒ Toba) 11 29.1
 CI  Taita Line (Tajimi ‒ Mino Ōta) 8 17.8
 CG  Takayama Main Line (Gifu ‒ Mino Ōta) 8 27.3
 CE  Taketoyo Line (Ōbu ‒ Taketoyo) 10 19.3
 CA  Tōkaidō Main Line (Toyohashi ‒ Maibara) 42 152.3
Tōkaidō Main Line (Ōgaki ‒ Mino-Akasaka) 3 5.0
Total 138 465.2
M Aichi Loop Railway Aichi Loop Line 23 45.3 38,759 2010 14,140,000 2010
Aichi Rapid Transit Linimo (Tōbu Kyūryō Line) 9 8.9 18,500 2011 6,772,000 2011
Nagoya Guideway Bus Yutorito Line 9 6.5 3,578,785 2010
Nagoya Rinkai Rapid Transit [ja] Aonami Line 11 15.2 10,244,154 2010

Toyohashi Railroad
Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line 16 18.0 7,504,000 2010
Toyohashi Railroad Azumada Main Line 14 5.4 2,811,000 2010
Total 30 23.4
O Akechi Railroad Akechi Railroad Akechi Line 11 25.1 439,954 2010
Ise Railway Ise Railway Ise Line 10 22.3 4,314 2010 1,574,743 2010
Nagaragawa Railway Nagaragawa Railway Etsumi-Nan Line 38 72.1 776,714 2010

Sangi Railway
Sangi Railway Sangi Line 15 26.6
Sangi Railway Hokusei Line 13 20.4
Total 28 47.0 15,066 2010 5,499,068 2010
Tarumi Railway Tarumi Railway Tarumi Line 19 34.5 602,383 2010
Tōkai Transport Service Company Tōkai Transport Service Jōhoku Line 6 11.2 400,513 2009
Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Hachiōji Line 2 1.3
Utsube Line 8 5.7
Total 9 7.0
Yōrō Railway Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line 27 57.5 6,423,850 2010

Niigata

Urban rail systems in Niigata
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
J
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Ban'etsu West Line (Gosen ‒ Niitsu) 5 9.9
Echigo Line (Yoshida ‒ Niigata) 15 34.0
Hakushin Line (Niigata ‒ Shibata) 10 27.3
Shin'etsu Main Line (Nagaoka ‒ Niigata) 20 63.3
Uetsu Main Line (Niitsu ‒ Shibata) 7 26.0
Yahiko Line (Yahiko ‒ Higashi-Sanjō) 8 17.4
Total 58 177.9

Okayama

Urban rail systems in Okayama
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
J
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
 N  Akō Line (Sōgo ‒ Higashi-Okayama) 13 37.8
 Z  Fukuen Line (Fukuyama ‒ Fuchū) 15 23.6
 V  Hakubi Line (Kurashiki ‒ Niimi) 14 64.4
 U  Kibi Line (Okayama ‒ Sōja) 10 20.4
 S 
 W 
 X 
San'yō Main Line (Mitsuishi ‒ Itozaki) 29 128.5
 M  Seto Ōhashi Line (Okayama ‒ Kojima) 12 27.8
 T  Tsuyama Line (Okayama ‒ Tsuyama) 17 58.7
 L  Uno Line (Chayamachi ‒ Uno) 8 17.9
Total 110 379.1
M Okayama Electric Tramway Okaden Higashiyama Line [ja] 10 3.1    
Okaden Seikibashi Line 7 1.6
Total 16 4.7 3,332,791 2010
O Ibara Railway Ibara Railway Ibara Line 15 41.7 1,017,000 2009
Mizushima Rinkai Railway Mizushima Main Line 10 10.4 1,593,220 2010

Osaka‒Kobe‒Kyoto (Keihanshin)

Urban rail systems in Keihanshin
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Osaka Metro
(Private)
Midosuji Line 20 24.5
Tanimachi Line 26 28.1
Yotsubashi Line 11 11.4
Chuo Line 15 21.1
Sennichimae Line 14 12.6
Sakaisuji Line 10 8.5
Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line 17 15.0
Imazatosuji Line 11 11.9
Nankō Port Town Line 10 7.9 71,071 2010
Total 109 141.0 ... 2010

Kobe Municipal Subway
(Public)
Seishin-Yamate Line 16 22.7 95,479,000 2010
Kaigan Line 10 7.9 15,575,000 2010
Hokushin Line 2 7.5 25,501 2010 9,308,000 2010
Total 28 38.1 120,362,000 2010

Kyoto Municipal Subway
(Public)
Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line 15 13.7
Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line 17 17.5
Total 31 31.2 330,191 2010 120,519,560 2010
P Hankyū Corporation (Hankyū)   Hankyū Kōbe Main Line 16 32.3    
Hankyū Kōbe Rapid Line 4 2.8
Hankyū Itami Line 4 3.1
Hankyū Imazu Line 10 9.3
Hankyū Kōyō Line 3 2.2
  Hankyū Takarazuka Main Line 19 24.5
Hankyū Minoo Line 4 4.0
  Hankyū Kyōto Main Line 27 47.7
Hankyū Senri Line 11 13.6
Hankyū Arashiyama Line 4 4.1
Total 89 143.6 608,632,000 2011
Hanshin Electric Railway (Hanshin) Hanshin Main Line 33 32.1    
Hanshin Namba Line 11 10.1
Hanshin Mukogawa Line 4 1.7
Hanshin Kōbe Rapid Line 7 5.0
Total 50 48.9 218,560,000 2011
Keihan Electric Railway (Keihan) Keihan Main Line 40 49.3    
Keihan Ōtō Line 3 2.3
Keihan Nakanoshima Line 5 3.0
Keihan Katano Line 8 6.9
Keihan Uji Line 8 7.6
Keihan Keishin Line 7 7.5
Keihan Ishiyama Sakamoto Line 21 14.1
Total 87 90.7 279,394,000 2011

Kintetsu Railway (Kintetsu)
 D  Osaka Line 40 77.9    
 J  Shigi Line 3 2.8
 A  Namba Line 3 2.0
 A  Nara Line 22 30.8
 G  Ikoma Line 12 12.4
 C  Keihanna Line 8 18.8
 B  Kyoto Line 26 34.6
 B  Kashihara Line 17 23.8
 H  Tenri Line 4 4.5
 I  Tawaramoto Line 8 10.1
 F  Minami Osaka Line 28 39.7
 N  Domyoji Line 3 2.2
 O  Nagano Line 8 12.5
 P  Gose Line 4 5.2
 F  Yoshino Line 16 25.2
Total 185 302.5 566,061,000 2011

Nankai Electric Railway (Nankai)
  Nankai Main Line 43 64.2
Takashinohama Line 3 1.5
Tanagawa Line 4 2.6
Kada Line 8 9.6
Wakayamako Line 2 2.8
  Nankai Airport Line 3 8.8
  Koya Line 42 63.8
Shiomibashi Line 6 4.6
Total 99 157.9 586,866 2010 223,484,000 2011
Kita-Osaka Kyūkō Railway Kita-Osaka Kyūkō Railway Namboku Line [ja] 4 5.9 54,586,000 2010
Kōbe Rapid Transit Railway Hankyū Kōbe Kōsoku Line See Tōzai Line (Kobe)
Hanshin Kōbe Kōsoku Line See Tōzai Line (Kobe)
Shintetsu Kōbe Kōsoku Line See Shintetsu Kobe Kosoku Line
Nakanoshima Rapid Railway [ja] See Keihan Nakanoshima Line
Nara Ikoma Rapid Railway [ja] See Kintetsu Keihanna Line
Semboku Rapid Railway Semboku Rapid Railway 6 14.3 135,450 2011 49,368,000 2010
Sanyo Electric Railway Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line 43 54.7    
Sanyo Electric Railway Aboshi Line 7 8.5
Total 49 63.2 53,144,000 2011
J
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
 A  Akō Line (Aioi ‒ Banshū Akō) 4 10.5
 A  Biwako Line (Kyōto ‒ Nagahama) 23 75.4
 H  Gakkentoshi Line (Kyōbashi ‒ Kizu) 24 55.4
Hagoromo Line (Ōtori ‒ Higashi-Hagoromo) 2 1.7
 R  Hanwa Line (Tennōji ‒ Wakayama) 35 61.3
 A  Hokuriku Main Line (Nagahama ‒ Ōmi-Shiotsu) 7 18.6
 A  JR Kōbe Line (Ōsaka ‒ Himeji) 39 87.9
 A  JR Kyōto Line (Ōsaka ‒ Kyōto) 17 42.8
 G  JR Takarazuka Line / Fukuchiyama Line (Ōsaka ‒ Tanikawa) 24 73.0
 H  JR Tōzai Line (Kyōbashi ‒ Amagasaki) 9 12.5
 P  JR Yumesaki Line (Nishi-Kujō ‒ Sakurajima) 4 4.1
 I  Kakogawa Line (Kakogawa ‒ Tanikawa) 21 48.5
 V  Kansai Main Line (Kamo ‒ Tsuge) 9 41.0
 S  Kansai Airport Line (Hineno ‒ Kansai Airport) 3 11.1
 B  Kosei Line (Yamashina ‒ Ōmi-Shiotsu) 21 74.1
 C  Kusatsu Line (Kusatsu ‒ Tsuge) 11 36.7
 U  Man-yo Mahoroba Line (Nara ‒ Takada) 14 29.4
 D  Nara Line (Kyōto ‒ Kizu) 19 34.7
 F  Osaka Higashi Line (Shin-Osaka ‒ Kyūhōji) 14 20.2
 O  Osaka Loop Line (Ōsaka ‒ Ōsaka) 19 21.7
 E  Sagano Line (Kyōto ‒ Sonobe) 16 34.2
 Q  Yamatoji Line (JR Namba ‒ Kamo) 22 54.0
Wadamisaki Line (Hyōgo ‒ Wadamisaki) 2 2.7
 T  Wakayama Line (Ōji ‒ Wakayama) 36 87.5
Total 378 993.0
M Eizan Electric Railway   Eizan Electric Railway Eizan Main Line [ja] 8 5.6    
  Eizan Electric Railway Kurama Line [ja] 10 8.8
Total 17 14.4 6,537,000 2010
Hankai Tramway Hankai Line 30 14.1    
Hankai Uemachi Line 11 4.6
Total 40 18.7 7,571,000 2008
Keifuku Electric Railroad   Keifuku Electric Railroad Arashiyama Main Line [ja] 13 7.2    
  Keifuku Electric Railroad Kitano Line [ja] 9 3.8
Total 21 11.0 6,842,000 2011
Kōbe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) Shintetsu Arima Line 15 22.5     42,146,000 2011
Shintetsu Sanda Line 10 12.0
Shintetsu Kōen-Toshi Line 4 5.5
Shintetsu Ao Line 20 29.2
Shintetsu Kōbe Rapid Line 2 0.4 16,343,000 2011
Total 47 69.6
Kobe New Transit Port Island Line 12 10.8 21,363,000 2010
Rokkō Island Line 6 4.5 11,956,000 2010
Total 18 15.3 33,318,000 2010
Nose Electric Railway Nose Electric Railway Myōken Line [ja] 14 12.2    
Nose Electric Railway Nissei Line [ja] 2 2.6
Total 15 14.8 21,860,154 2010
Osaka Monorail Osaka Monorail Main Line 14 21.2
Osaka Monorail Saito Line 5 6.8
Total 18 28.0 99,721 2010 36,398,058 2010
O Chizu Express Chizu Express Chizu Line 14 56.1 1,050,890 2010
Hōjō Railway Hōjō Railway Hōjō Line 8 13.6 307,000 2010
Iga Railway Iga Railway Iga Line 14 16.6 5,010 2010 1,828,695 2010
Mizuma Railway Mizuma Railway Mizuma Line 10 5.5 2,030,000 2009
Ohmi Railway Ohmi Railway Main Line 25 47.7
Ohmi Railway Taga Line 3 2.5
Ohmi Railway Yōkaichi Line 7 9.3
Total 33 59.5 12,571 2010 4,588,327 2010
Shigaraki Kōgen Railway Shigaraki Kōgen Railway Shigaraki Kōgen Line [ja] 6 14.7 1,345 2010 491,015 2010
Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line 14 14.3 2,170,102 2010

Sapporo

Urban rail systems in Sapporo
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Sapporo City Transportation Bureau
Namboku Line 16 14.3
Tōzai Line 19 20.1
Tōhō Line 14 13.6
Total 46 48.0 561,262 2010 204,860,548 2010
J
Hokkaidō Railway Company (JR Hokkaidō)
Chitose Line (Shiroishi ‒ New Chitose Airport) 13 40.8
Chitose Line (Minami-Chitose ‒ Tomakomai) 4 27.2
Hakodate Main Line (Otaru ‒ Iwamizawa) 27 74.4
Sasshō Line (Sapporo ‒ Hokkaidō-Iryōdaigaku) 14 30.5
Total 55 172.9
M Sapporo City Transportation Bureau Sapporo Streetcar 23 8.4 20,074 2010 7,327,120 2010

Sendai

Urban rail systems in Sendai
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Sendai Subway
  Nanboku Line 17 14.8 150,410 2010 54,448,485 2010
  Tozai Line 13 13.9 ? ? ? ?
Total 30 28.7 150,410 2010 54,448,485 2010
J
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Jōban Line (Haranomachi ‒ Iwanuma) 17 56.2
Senseki Line (Aoba-dōri ‒ Ishinomaki) 31 50.2
Senzan Line (Sendai ‒ Ayashi) 9 15.2
Tōhoku Main Line (Shiroishi ‒ Kogota) 24 88.2
Tōhoku Main Line (Iwakiri ‒ Rifu) 3 4.2
Total 75 214.0
M Sendai Airport Transit Sendai Airport Access Line 4 7.1 6,670 2010 2,294,400 2010

Shizuoka‒Hamamatsu

Urban rail systems in Shizuoka-Hamamatsu
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
J
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
 CB  Gotemba Line (Gotemba ‒ Numazu) 9 24.7
 CC  Minobu Line (Fuji ‒ Shibakawa) 10 19.2
 CA  Tōkaidō Main Line (Atami ‒ Toyohashi) 42 189.0
Total 59 232.9
M Enshū Railway Enshū Railway Line 18 17.8 24,968 2010 9,113,428 2010
Izuhakone Railway Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line 13 19.8 28,033 2010
Shizuoka Railway Shizuoka Railway Shizuoka-Shimizu Line 15 11.0 28,332 2010 10,341,000 2010
O Gakunan Railway Gakunan Railway Line 10 9.2 773,000 2010

Ōigawa Railway
Ōigawa Railway Ōigawa Main Line 19 39.5     777,604 2010
Ōigawa Railway Ikawa Line 14 25.5
Total 32 65.0 777,604 2010
Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Line 38 67.7 1,549,704 2010
Total 38 67.7 1,549,704 2010

Tokyo (Kantō)

Urban rail systems in Greater Tokyo
Cat. Operator Icon Line Stations Length (km) Average daily ridership Fiscal year Annual ridership Fiscal year
S
Tokyo Metro
(Private)
Tokyo Metro Ginza Line 19 14.3 943,606 2017
Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line 28 27.4 1,159,898 2017
Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line 21 20.3 1,213,492 2017
Tokyo Metro Tōzai Line 23 30.8 1,642,378 2017
Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line 20 24 1,447,730 2017
Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line 24 28.3 1,124,478 2017
Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line 14 16.8 1,006,682 2017
Tokyo Metro Namboku Line 19 21.3 522,736 2017
Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line 16 11.9 363,654 2017
Total 143 195.1 9,424,654 2017 2,277,595,000 2011

Toei Subway
(Public)
Toei Asakusa Line 20 18.3 718,885 2016
Toei Mita Line 27 26.5 638,365 2016
Toei Shinjuku Line 21 23.5 745,889 2016
Toei Ōedo Line 38 40.7 993,621 2016
Total 99 109.0 3,036,760 2016 848,668,000 2010

Yokohama Municipal Subway
(Public)
Blue Line 32 40.4 492,435 2010
Green Line 10 13.0 104,089 2010
Total 40 53.4 209,983,726 2010
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway
(Third-sector)
Minatomirai Line 6 4.1 162,818 2010
P Keihin Electric Express Railway (Keikyū) KK Keikyū Main Line 50 56.7 1,129,320 2010
KK Keikyū Airport Line 7 6.5 154,727 2010
KK Keikyū Daishi Line 7 4.5 67,676 2010
KK Keikyū Zushi Line 4 5.9 42,788 2010
KK Keikyū Kurihama Line 9 13.4 123,536 2010
Total 73 87.0 1,207,565 2010 431,046,000 2011

Keiō Corporation (Keiō)
Keiō Line 32 37.9
Keiō New Line 4 3.6
Keiō Sagamihara Line 12 22.6
Keiō Keibajō Line 2 0.9
Keiō Dōbutsuen Line 2 2.0
Keiō Takao Line 7 8.6
Keiō Inokashira Line 17 12.7 547,845 2010
Total 70 88.3 1,727,355 2010 619,063,000 2011

Keisei Electric Railway (Keisei)
KS Keisei Main Line 42 69.3
KS Keisei Higashi-Narita Line 2 1.1
KS Keisei Oshiage Line 6 5.7
KS Keisei Kanamachi Line 3 2.5
KS Keisei Chiba Line 10 12.9
KS Keisei Chihara Line 6 10.9
KS Keisei Narita Airport Line 8 50.4
Total 69 152.8 712,426 2010 255,590,000 2011

Odakyū Electric Railway (Odakyū)
Odakyū Odawara Line 47 82.5
Odakyū Enoshima Line 17 27.6
Odakyū Tama Line 8 10.6
Total 70 120.7 1,946,313 2010 708,685,000 2010
Sagami Railway (Sōtetsu) Sōtetsu Main Line 18 24.6
Sōtetsu Izumino Line 8 11.3
Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line 3 6.3
Total 28 42.2 614,236 2011 224,810,000 2011

Seibu Railway (Seibu)
Seibu Ikebukuro Line 31 57.8
Seibu Chichibu Line 6 19.0
Seibu Yūrakuchō Line 3 2.6
Seibu Toshima Line 2 1.0
Seibu Sayama Line 3 4.2
Seibu Yamaguchi Line 3 2.8
Seibu Shinjuku Line 29 47.5
Seibu Seibuen Line 2 2.4
Seibu Haijima Line 8 14.3
Seibu Tamako Line 7 9.2
Seibu Kokubunji Line 5 7.8
Seibu Tamagawa Line 6 8.0
Total 92 176.6 1,692,523 2010 610,325,000 2010

Tōbu Railway (Tōbu)
TS Tōbu Skytree Line 30 41 2010 2011
TS Tōbu Kameido Line 5 3.4
TS Tōbu Daishi Line 2 1.0
TI Tōbu Isesaki Line 26 75.1
TI Tōbu Isesaki Line (Oshiage Branch) 2 1.3
TI Tōbu Sano Line 10 22.1
TI Tōbu Kiryū Line 8 20.3
TI Tōbu Koizumi Line 9 18.4
TN Tōbu Nikkō Line 26 94.5
TN Tōbu Utsunomiya Line 11 24.3
TN Tōbu Kinugawa Line 8 16.2
TD Tobu Urban Park Line 35 62.7
TJ Tōbu Tōjō Line 38 75.0
TJ Tōbu Ogose Line 8 10.9
Total 204 464.6 2,364,626 2010 855,714,000 2011

Tōkyū Corporation (Tōkyū)
TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line 21 24.2 1,114,571 2011 2011
MG Tōkyū Meguro Line 13 11.9 324,052 2011
DT Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line 27 31.5 1,162,575 2011
OM Tōkyū Ōimachi Line 18 12.4 438,979 2011
IK Tōkyū Ikegami Line 15 10.9 216,844 2011
TM Tōkyū Tamagawa Line 7 5.6 141,311 2011
TD Tōkyū Kodomonokuni Line 3 3.4 11,573 2011
SG Tōkyū Setagaya Line 10 5.0 53,509 2011
SH Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line 3 5.8
Total 99 110.7 1,065,364,000 2011
M Shin-Keisei Electric Railway SL Shin-Keisei Line 24 26.5 276,495 2010
J
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
  Chūō Main Line (Takao ‒ Nirasaki) 23 93.9
JC Chūō Rapid Line (Tōkyō ‒ Takao) 24 53.1
JB Chūō-Sōbu Line (Mitaka ‒ Chiba) 39 60.2
  Hachikō Line (Hachiōji ‒ Kuragano) 23 92.0
JT Itō Line (Atami ‒ Itō) 6 16.9
JC Itsukaichi Line (Haijima ‒ Musashi Itsukaichi) 7 11.1
  Jōban Line (Ueno ‒ Iwaki) 44 211.6        
JJ Jōban Rapid Line
JL Jōban Local Line (Ayase ‒ Toride) 14 29.7
  Jōetsu Line (Takasaki ‒ Minakami) 14 59.1
  Karasuyama Line (Hōshakuji ‒ Karasuyama) 8 20.4
  Kashima Line (Katori ‒ Kashima Soccer Stadium) 6 17.4
  Kawagoe Line (Ōmiya ‒ Kawagoe) 6 16.1
  Kawagoe Line (Kawagoe ‒ Komagawa) 6 14.5
JK Keihin-Tōhoku Line (Ōmiya ‒ Yokohama) 36 59.1
JE Keiyō Line (Tōkyō ‒ Soga) 18 54.3
  Kururi Line (Kisarazu ‒ Kazusa-Kameyama) 14 32.2
  Mito Line (Oyama ‒ Tomobe) 16 50.2
JM Musashino Line (Fuchū-Honmachi ‒ Nishi-Funabashi) 26 71.8
JN Nambu Line (Tachikawa ‒ Kawasaki) 26 35.5
Nambu Line Branch (Shitte ‒ Hama-Kawasaki) 4 4.1
  Narita Line (Sakura ‒ Narita Airport) 5 23.9
Narita Line (Narita Airport Junction ‒ Matsugishi) 13 60.2
  Narita Line (Abiko ‒ Narita) 10 32.9
JK Negishi Line (Yokohama ‒ Ōfuna) 12 22.1
  Nikkō Line (Utsunomiya ‒ Nikkō) 7 40.5
JC Ōme Line (Tachikawa ‒ Oku-Tama) 25 37.2
  Ryōmō Line (Oyama ‒ Shin-Maebashi) 18 84.4
  Sagami Line (Chigasaki ‒ Hashimoto) 18 33.3
  Saikyō Line (Ōsaki ‒ Ōmiya) 19 36.9
  Shin'etsu Main Line (Takasaki ‒ Yokokawa) 8 29.7
JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Ōmiya ‒ Ikebukuro and Ōsaki ‒ Hebikubo Junction) 28.6
  Sōbu Main Line (Chiba ‒ Chōshi) 22 81.3
JO Sōbu Line (Rapid) (Tōkyō ‒ Chiba) 10 39.2
  Sotobō Line (Chiba ‒ Awa-Kamogawa) 27 93.3
JU Takasaki Line (Ōmiya ‒ Takasaki) 19 74.7
  Tōgane Line (Ōami ‒ Narutō) 5 13.8
JT Tōkaidō Main Line (Tōkyō ‒ Atami) 21 104.6
JI Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi ‒ Ōgimachi, Asano ‒ Umi-Shibaura, and Anzen ‒ Ōkawa) 13 9.7
  Uchibō Line (Soga ‒ Awa-Kamogawa) 30 119.4
  Ueno-Tōkyō Line (Ueno ‒ Tōkyō) 2 3.6
JU Utsunomiya Line (Ueno ‒ Kuroiso) 33 159.9
JY Yamanote Line (Shinagawa ‒ Shinagawa) 30 34.5 4,098,582 2015
JO Yokosuka Line (Tōkyō ‒ Kurihama) 19 73.3
JH Yokohama Line (Higashi-Kanagawa ‒ Hachiōji) 20 42.6
Total 623 2,282.8
M Chiba Urban Monorail Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1 6 3.2 2009 2010
Chiba Urban Monorail Line 2 13 12.0
Total 18 15.2 45,571 2009 16,526,000 2010
Enoshima Electric Railway Enoshima Electric Railway Line 15 10.0 42,856 2009
Hokusō Railway HS Hokusō Line 15 32.3 37,951,000 2010
Kantō Railway Jōsō Line 25 51.1 26,206 2010 9,458,398 2010
Ryūgasaki Line 3 4.5 2,400 2010 869,275 2010
Total 28 55.6 28,606 2010 10,327,673 2010
Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company Tsukuba Express 20 58.3 283,000 2010 102,220,000 2010
Saitama New Urban Transit New Shuttle 13 12.7 43,700 2010 15,719,338 2010
Saitama Railway SR Saitama Rapid Railway Line 8 14.6 85,100 2010 31,051,286 2010
Shonan Monorail Shōnan Monorail Enoshima Line 8 6.6 27,678 2009 9,949,000 2010
Tama Urban Monorail Tama Urban Monorail 19 16.0 124,678 2010 45,507,620 2010
Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation Nippori-Toneri Liner 13 9.7 59,034 2010 21,488,000 2010
Toden Arakawa Line 30 12.2 49,517 2010 18,074,000 2010
Tokyo Monorail Tokyo Monorail 11 17.8 45,842,000 2010
Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (TWR) Rinkai Line 8 12.2 200,200 2010 73,099,000 2010
Tōyō Rapid Railway Tōyō Rapid Line 9 16.2 133,000 2010 48,054,000 2010
Utsunomiya Light Rail Utsunomiya Haga Light Rail Line 19 14.6
Yokohama New Transit Kanazawa Seaside Line 14 10.6 47,542 2011 17,228,408 2011
Yurikamome Yurikamome 16 14.7 31,794,000 2010
O Chichibu Railway Chichibu Main Line 35 71.7 8,070,000 2011
Chōshi Electric Railway Chōshi Electric Railway Line 10 6.4 1,952 2009 712,255 2009
Fuji Kyuko Fujikyuko Line 18 26.6 2,947,110 2009
Hakone Tozan Railway Hakone Tozan Line 11 15.0 22,408 2009 15,908,872 2010
Hitachinaka Kaihin Railway Minato Line 9 14.3 786,210 2010
Isumi Railway Isumi Line 14 26.8 1,111 2009 405,669 2009
Izuhakone Railway Izuhakone Railway Daiyūzan Line 12 9.6 20,895 2010
Izukyū Corporation Izu Kyūkō Line 16 45.7 5,114,496 2010
Jōmō Electric Railway Jōmō Line 23 25.4 1,619,915 2009
Jōshin Electric Railway Jōshin Dentetsu Jōshin Line 20 33.7 2,210,000 2009
Kashima Rinkai Railway Ōarai Kashima Line 15 53.0 2,374,000 2009
Kominato Railway Kominato Line 18 39.1 3,807 2010
Maihama Resort Line Disney Resort Line 4 5.0 45,754 2009
Mooka Railway Mooka Railway Mooka Line 17 41.9 1,065,190 2010
Ryutetsu Ryutetsu Nagareyama Line 6 5.7 7,961 2010 2,905,649 2010
Shibayama Railway Shibayama Railway Line 2 2.2 2,048 2010 747,677 2010
Watarase Keikoku Railway Watarase Keikoku Line 17 44.1 488,795 2009
Yagan Railway Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line 9 30.7 489,385 2009
Yamaman [ja] Yamaman Yūkarigaoka Line 6 5.0 1,763 2009

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