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Yamanote Line, Tokyo
In Japan, railways are a major means of passenger transportation, especially for mass and high speed transportation between major cities and for commuter transportation in metropolitan areas. Seven Japan Railway companies, once state owned until 1987, cover most parts of Japan. There also are railway services operated by private rail companies, regional governments, and companies funded by both regional governments and private companies.
Total railways of 23,670.7 km include entirely electrified 2,893.1 km of 1.435-m standard gauge and 89.8 km of 1.372-m narrow gauge, 89.8 km of which is electrified. Half of 20,656.8 km 1.067-m gauge and 3.6 km of 31 km 0.762-m gauge are electrified (1994).
Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo and YokohamaFor the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama. Korean War, the United States Navy used Yokohama's port as a transshipment base. This ship departed Yokohama in 1951, carrying war dead home to the have metroThis page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. For other uses see metro (disambiguation metro in Athens, Greece double as museums with displays of antiquities found in excavations of its tunnels in the historic city. A Metro is a form of mass transi systems.Japan has 1,152,207 km of highways with 863,003 km (including 6,114 km of expressways) paved and 289,204 km of unpaved ways (1997 est.). A single network of high-speed, divided, limited-access toll roadA toll road turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. Similarly there are toll bridges and toll tunnels . Other non-toll roads are financed using other sources of revenue, most typically gasoline tax funds. Tolls havs connects major cities on HonshuHonshu is the largest island of Japan, called the Mainland it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and north-east of Kyushu across the Shimonoseki Strait. Worldwide, it is either the seventh or eighth lar, ShikokuShikoku (, "four provinces") is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan. The Shikoku region--comprising the entire island of Shikoku covers about 18,800 square kilometers and consists of four prefectures: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi, an and KyushuKyushu is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. An ancient name for Kyushu is Saikaido. It is considered the birthplace of Japanese civilization. Population: 13. 44 million (1995). Area: 35,640 kmē.. Hokkaido has a separate network, and Okinawa HontoOkinawa Honto (, "the main island of Okinawa") is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands at the edge of the East China Sea, helping to define the sea's boundary with the open Pacific Ocean. Some sixty miles long and varying in width from only a few miles at th has a highway of this type; ferries connect Hokkaido to Honshu, and Okinawa Honto to Kyushu and Honshu.