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On 22 September, JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central and JR West announced that Transit Discount (乗継割引, noritsugi waribiki), a 50% discount for limited express tickets, would be discontinued in sp...

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On 25 April, a refurbishment programme at Seibu Railway's Ikebukuro station in Tokyo has been completed. Platforms 1 and 2 now look like King's Cross station in London. Seibu carried out the constr...

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Kotoden (Takamatsu Kotohira Railroad) is a small private railway in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan. There are three lines: Kotohira line (the longest and busiest), Nagao line and Shido line. The ...

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Hokkaido is the northernmost among four main islands in Japan. More than five million people live in the island, and its capital city Sapporo has a population of nearly two million people. Sapporo ...

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Enoden is a small private railway in the ancient capital of Kamakura, and the railway itself is recognised as a tourist spot. There are many places to visit, such as Hase-dera (temple), The Great B...

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The article uploaded last month showed that Tokaido Shinkansen became faster and more frequent in the last 50 years. It is not hard to imagine how have trips between Tokyo and Nagoya, Osaka and Oka...

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On Friday 17 June, JR Central opened a "square" in front of Hashimoto station in Sagamihara City (Kanagawa Prefecture). Here, Hashimoto station of Chuo Shinkansen has been constructed sin...

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Tokaido Shinkansen, the first high-speed rail in Japan opened in 1964. It was extended to Okayama in 1972 as San-yo Shinkansen opened, and further to Hakata in 1975. Thus, the 1973 timetable contai...

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In the end of May, a trainspotter divulged a photo capturing Keikyu's new train which is currently being built at Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing factory in Kobe. The photo revealed that the number ...

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Many rural railways in Japan are on the verge of permanent closure as this blog explained last year. Many people insist that it is because of population decline, and blame that the government has b...

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On Wednesday 10 May, Keikyu published a detailed document about fare rises that take effect on 1 October. The company announced last month that fares would be raised by 10.8% on average, though lon...

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There are several railway stations in Japan with a weird building. One of them is Kamenoko station in Misaki Town, Okayama Prefecture. 亀甲 simply means turtle shell in Japanese, and there is a roc...

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*This article is a part of "50 years on: a comparison" series, comparing two train timetables of JR (and Japanese National Railways) and how things have changed in the last 50 years.General Topics ...

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On Monday 3 April, my parents and I enjoyed a 34-minute journey on Kintetsu Aoniyoshi, a sightseeing train in ancient capitals in Japan. Unlike other articles on this blog, I wrote my thoughts abou...

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The Red List of Trains in Japan has been updated with 8 new articles. More importantly, many existing articles have the latest information reflecting the annual timetable revision that took place o...

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On Saturday 18 March 2023, two new lines were added to Tokyo's railway network: Sotetsu and Tokyu Shin-Yokohama lines. Sotetsu Shin-Yokohama line was extended from Hazawa yokohama-kokudai (hereinaf...

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In June 2010, Keikyu 1000 series retired after being in service for more than 50 years. The 1000 series was known as the most numerous "type" (but not "series") among all privat...

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Tokyo Metro 17000 seriesTokyu Toyoko line connects Shibuya in Tokyo and Yokohama, and it is one of the busiest railways in the Greater Tokyo Area. There have been through-services to Tokyo Metro Fu...

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Turning 60 has a special meaning in East Asian culture. It is called jiazi in Chinese, hwangap in Korean and kanreki in Japanese (please leave a comment what is it called in other Asian countries, ...

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The Red List of Trains in Japan has been updated with 21 new articles as listed below, all of which are Kintetsu trains in Nagoya and Osaka areas.I am not a Kintetsu expert, and Kintetsu has been n...

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