Route |
Year Completed |
Line name at present |
Lines of the central region |
Hachiōji or Gotenba — Kōfu — Suwa — Ina District or NishiChikuma District — Nagoya |
1911 Hachiōji — Nagoya via NishiChikuma District by national railway |
Chūō Main Line |
Nagano or Shinonoi (present day in Nagano) — Matsumoto — connect to the previous clause route |
1902 Shinonoi — Shiojiri by national railway |
Shinonoi Line |
Kōfu — Fujikawa |
1928 Kōfu — Fuji by private railway, 1941 nationalized |
Minobu Line |
Line to connect the Central region lines and the Hokuriku region line |
Gifu or Matsumoto — Takayama — Toyama |
1934 Gifu — Toyama by national railway |
Takayama Main Line |
Lines of the Hokuriku region |
Tsuruga — Kanazawa — Toyama; and branch to Nanao |
1899 Tsuruga — Toyama by national railway; 1898 Tsubata — Nanao by private railway but not connected to main line until 1900 in Tsubata, 1907 nationalized |
Hokuriku Main Line, Nanao Line |
Line to connect the Hokuriku region line and the Echigo region line |
Toyama — Naoetsu (present day Jōetsu) |
1913 by national railway |
Hokuriku Main Line |
Line of the Echigo region |
Naoetsu or Maebashi or Toyono — Niigata and Shibata |
1899 Naoetsu — Nuttari Station in Niigata by private railway, 1907 nationalized; 1912 connected Shibata by national railway; 1931 connected Maebashi by national railway; 1929 connected Toyono partly private railway, 1944 nationalized |
Shinetsu Main Line, Jōetsu Line, Iiyama Line |
Line to connect the Echigo region line and the Ōu region lines |
Shibata — Yonezawa; or, Niitsu — Wakamatsu — Shirakawa or Motomiya |
1936 Shibata — Yonezawa by national railway; 1914 Niitsu — Kōriyama including 1906 nationalization section |
Uetsu Main Line, Yonesaka Line, West Ban'etsu Line |
Lines of the Ōu region (Mutsu Province and Dewa Province) |
Fukushima — Yonezawa — Yamagata — Akita — Hirosaki — Aomori; and branch to Sakata |
1905 Fukushima — Aomori by national railway; 1914 Shinjō — Sakata by national railway |
Ōu Main Line, Rikuu West Line |
Sendai or Ishinomaki — Tendō or Kogota — Funagata |
1937 Sendai — Yamagata by national railway; 1912 Ishinomaki — Kogota by private railway, 1919 nationalized; 1917 Kogota — Nagasawa Station (in Funagata) — Shinjō by national railway |
Senzan Line, Ishinomaki Line, Rikuu East Line |
Kitakami or Hanamaki — Yokote |
1924 Kitakami — Yokote by national railway |
Kitakami Line |
Morioka — Miyako or Yamada |
1934 Morioka — Miyako, 1935 connected Yamada by national railway |
Yamada Line[1] |
Lines of the Sōbu region (Shimōsa Province and Musashi Province) |
Tokyo — Chiba — Sakura — Chōshi; and branch to Kisarazu |
1897 Honjo Station in Tokyo — Chōshi by private railway, 1907 nationalized; 1912 connected Kisarazu including 1907 nationalization section |
Sōbu Main Line, Uchibō Line |
Line of the Jōban region (Hitachi Province and Iwaki Province) |
Mito — Taira — Iwanuma |
1898 by private railway, 1906 nationalized |
Jōban Line |
Lines of the Kinki region |
Nara — Tsuge (present day in Iga-City) |
1898 by private railway, 1907 nationalized |
Kansai Main Line |
Osaka or Yagi or Takada — Gojō — Wakayama |
1900 Takada — Wakayama by private railways, 1907 nationalized |
Wakayama Line |
Kyoto — Nara |
1896 by private railway, 1907 nationalized |
Nara Line |
Kyoto — Maizuru |
1910 Kyoto — Ayabe including 1907 nationalization section |
San'in Main Line |
Lines of the San'yō region |
Mihara — Shimonoseki |
1901 by private railway, 1906 nationalized |
San'yō Main Line |
Kaitaichi — Kure |
1903 by national railway |
Kure Line |
Line of the San'in region |
Maizuru — Toyooka — Tottori — Matsue — Hamada — Yamaguchi |
1923 Fukuchiyama — Ogōri by national railway |
San'in Main Line, Yamaguchi Line |
Lines to connect the Sanyō region and the San'in region |
Himeji — Ikuno or Sasayama — Maizuru or Sonobe; or Tsuchiyama (present day eastern border of Kakogawa) — Fukuchiyama — Maizuru |
1906 Himeji — Ikuno — Wadayama by private railway, 1906 nationalized; 1904 Amagasaki — Sasayama — Tanikawa — Fukuchiyama — Ayabe — Maizuru by private railway, 1907 nationalized 1924 Kakogawa — Tanikawa by private reilway, 1943 nationalized |
Bantan Line, Fukuchiyama Line, Maizuru Line, Kakogawa Line |
Himeji — Tottori; or Okayama — Tsuyama — Yonago — Sakai; or Kurashiki or Tamashima (present day in Kurashiki) — Sakai |
1936 Himeji — Tsuyama by national railway; 1898 Okayama — Tsuyama by private railway, 1944 nationalized; 1932 Tsuyama — Tottori by national railway; 1928 Kurashiki — Yonago by national railway; 1902 Yonago — Sakai by national railway |
Kishin Line, Tsuyama Line, Inbi Line, Hakubi Line |
Hiroshima — Hamada |
Not completed |
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Lines of the Shikoku region |
Kotohira — Kōchi — Susaki |
1935 by national railway |
Dosan Line |
Tokushima — connect to the previous clause route |
1914 Tokushima — Awa-Ikeda including 1907 nationalization section |
Tokushima Line |
Tadotsu — Imabari — Matsuyama |
1927 by national railway |
Yosan Line |
Lines of the Kyūshū region |
Saga — Sasebo and Nagasaki |
1898 via Takeo and Ōmura by private railway, 1907 nationalized; 1934 via Kashima, by national railway |
Sasebo Line, Ōmura Line, Nagasaki Main Line |
Kumamoto — Uto — Misumi; and branch line as Uto — Yatsushiro — Kagoshima |
To Misumi 1899 by private railway, 1907 nationalized; To Kagoshima 1909 via Hitoyoshi and Hayato, including 1907 nationalization section; 1927 via Minamata and Sendai by national railway |
Misumi Line, Kagoshima Main Line, Hisatsu Line, Hisatsu Orange Railway |
Kumamoto — Ōita |
1928 by national railway |
Hōhi Main Line |
Kokura — Ōita — Miyazaki — Kagoshima |
1923 via Kobayashi and Yoshimatsu including nationalization sections; 1932 via Takarabe by national railway |
Nippō Main Line, Kitto Line |
Iizuka — Haruda (present day Chikushino) |
1929 including 1907 nationalization section |
Chikuhō Main Line |
Kurume — Yamaga — Kumamoto |
Not completed |
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