List of defunct railway companies in Japan

List of defunct railway companies in Japan lists defunct Japanese railway operators. The list includes all types of railways, such as handcars, horsecars, trams, light railways, heavy rails, freight rails, industrial railways, monorails, new transit systems, or funiculars. Some companies are still active in other businesses, such as bus operation. Translated names might be tentative. "Former names" include those of preceding operators not directly related to their successors.

The list omits these types of operators:

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 Hokkaidō

Kamitokoro Station, Hokkaidō Chihoku Kōgen Railway Line, 2006.
Yūbari Railway Line, presumably in the 1970s.
Ōyūbari Coal Mine Industrial Railway Line, 1912.
Abandoned bridge of Ōyūbari Forest Railway.

Tōhoku region

"Horse Face Train" of Hanamaki Electric Railway, preserved at a park.
Railbus of Nanbu Jūkan Railway Line, at the revival event, 2006.

 Aomori Prefecture

 Iwate Prefecture

 Miyagi Prefecture

 Akita Prefecture

 Yamagata Prefecture

 Fukushima Prefecture

Kantō region

Ruins of Dream Land Monorail, Dream Kankō.
Ayukawa Station, Hitachi Dentetsu Line, 2004.
Former Kita-Karuizawa Station of Kusakaru Electric Railway.

 Ibaraki Prefecture

 Tochigi Prefecture

 Gunma Prefecture

 Saitama Prefecture

 Chiba Prefecture

 Tokyo Metropolis

 Kanagawa Prefecture

Chūbu region

Toyota IMTS guided bus system was operated only at Expo 2005, but still was considered as a railway.
Kamioka Railway Line, 2002.
Farewell run of Niigata Kōtsū train, 1999.
Peachliner (Tōkadai New Transit) was the first regular new transit system to be discontinued.

 Niigata Prefecture

 Yamanashi Prefecture

 Nagano Prefecture

 Toyama Prefecture

 Ishikawa Prefecture

 Fukui Prefecture

 Gifu Prefecture

 Shizuoka Prefecture

 Aichi Prefecture

 Mie Prefecture

Kansai region

Ruins of Atagoyama Railway Line.
Ruins of Daishōgun Station, Himeji Municipal Monorail.
Farewell run of Nokami Electric Railway Line, 1994.

 Shiga Prefecture

 Kyōto Prefecture

 Ōsaka Prefecture

 Hyōgo Prefecture

 Wakayama Prefecture

Chūgoku region

Type 1 Locomotive of Ikasa Railway, preserved at a museum.
Ōmoto Station, Okayama Rinkō Railway Line, 1984.

 Tottori Prefecture

 Shimane Prefecture

 Okayama Prefecture

 Hiroshima Prefecture

 Yamaguchi Prefecture

Shikoku region

 Tokushima Prefecture

 Kagawa Prefecture

 Ehime Prefecture

 Kōchi Prefecture

Kyūshū region

Type 2 Locomotive of Nansatsu Railway, preserved at a park.
Takachiho Railway Line acrossing Gokase River, 2005.
Daitō Tōgyō sugarcane train, preserved at a park.

 Fukuoka Prefecture

 Saga Prefecture

 Nagasaki Prefecture

 Kumamoto Prefecture

 Ōita Prefecture

 Miyazaki Prefecture

 Kagoshima Prefecture

 Okinawa Prefecture

See also

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