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Electric Railways of Japan Vol 1 Tokyo & North Japan Interurbans Tranways Metros
Electric Railways of Japan Vol 1 by Leroy W demery Jr, Ralph Forty, Raymond DeGroote Jr & J Wally Higgins
Interurbans Tramways Metros
Volume 1 Tokyo & North Japan
Soft Cover
99 pages
Copyright 1983?
CONTENTS
Introduction
Key to codes and abbreviations (ii)
Introduction 2
Japanese pronunciation 3
Japanese writing 3
General Notes 4
Sources and references 5
Hokkaid, Tand Shinetsu--Northern Japan 7
KantTregion 32
Tcentral Pacific coast 87
Late news 95
Japan Rail Pass 61
Japanese-English word list 18
JNR electric lines taken over from interurban companies77
INDEX TO UNDERTAKINGS
Chiba Urban Monorail37
Chichibu Railway33+
ChElectric Railway34+
Enoshima Elec Rly (Enoden) 81+
EnshRailway (Entetsu) 94
Fuji Express Co (Fu,jiky) 87
Fukushima Transport15
Gakunan Railway90
Hakodate City Transport Bureau (T) 11
Hakone Tozan Rly (I and F) 83+
HItachi Electric Railway 17
HokusDevelopment Rly37
Izu Express Co (Izuky)89
Izu Hakone Rly (I and F) 85+
JNR, TMetropolitan Region (Kokuden)57+
JElectric Rly33
JElectric Rly33
Kambara Railway15
Keihin Express Elec Rly (Keihin-ky)41+
KeiTeito Elec Rly19, 39
Keisei Electric Railway45+
KRailway13
Kurihara Elec Rly13
Matsumoto Elec Rly19
Mitake Tozan Rly (F)86
Mt Tsukuba Cable Rly86
Nagano Electric Railway17
Niigata Transport15
OdakyElectric Railway47+
Oigawa Railway91+
Oyama Sightseeing Rly (F) 79
Sagami Railway (S) 76
Saitama New Urban Trnspt (G) 86
Sapporo City Transport Bureau (M and T)7+
Seibu Railway 55+, 85
Sendai City Trnspt Bur (m) 13
Shin-Keisei Elec Rly 35, 85
Shizuoka Rly (Shizutetsu) 90+
ShMonorail82+
SNagareyama Elec Rly35
Takao Tozan Elec Rly (F) 86
Teito Rapid Transit Auth (Eidan, Tmetro)69+
TRailway63+
TExpress Elec Rly (T; I and T)51+
TMonorail75+
Towada Sightseeing Elec Rly 11
Transport Bureau, TMetpin Govt (Toei): metro (subway)70+
tramway and monorail73+
Ueda Transport19
Yamaman Co, Elec Rly Div (G) 79
Yokohama City Trnspt Bur (M) 79
Yomiuriland (M) 61
(additional system:)
Urban Housing Devlpt Agncy 95
INTRODUCTION
Japan has a large and expanding network of interurban railways, subways, tramways, and other transport systems powered by electricity. These combine with Japan's natural beauty, history and culture to form an immensely attractive destination for persons interested in electric transport. While all these systems are well documented in Japanese magazines and books, little practical information for visitors has been published in any other language.
This booklet is designed to fill this gap, so that visitors unfamiliar with spoken and written Japanese can plan and find their way around Japan with relative ease, economy and convenience. It has been written by and for electric railway enthusiasts, but we hope others will also find it useful, such as transit professionals on study tours. This initial volume covers all lines in northern Japan and the Tregion, and a second volume, now in preparation, will include the central, west and south parts of the country, including the great interurban network connecting Toyohashi, Nagoya, Osaka, Ky, Kand beyond.
We have tried to be accurate and include as much information as space permitted, which unfortunately did not allow for complete fleet lists of all systems. Some of the information will become obsolete as new lines open, old ones close, schedules change, fares increase, and stations are renamed and relocated. We present a picture of the electric railway scene in 1983, with some notes about coming changes, but with the knowledge that our accuracy will deteriorate with time.
Co-authors Ralph Forty, Ray DeGroote and Wally Higgins, longtime observers of the Japanese traction scene with much practice in extracting information from Japanese sources, provided encouragement, research materials, suggestions, corrections, comments and reminiscences. Ralph Forty corrected and updated the tramway rosters from those appearing in "Modern Tramway" in 1977. Wally Higgins contributed major portions of the text, checked all of it for errors and field-checked much of the information. The tasks of compilation and preparation of the master copy--and therefore ultimate responsibility for errors and omissions--rests with the prime author, who will welcome corrections and suggestions at P.O. Box 3484, Los Angeles, CA 90028-3484, USA.
I would like to acknowledge the assistance of the following in the research and production of this publication: A. Itoh, T. Yamaguchi, M. Fujiwara, S. Soho, R. Bogenberger, F. E. Thompson, B. Hurley, G. W. Thompson, D. A. Mason, K. Watanabe, K. Ikeda, the Japan External Trade Organization and the UCLA Map Library.
1983.3.1Leroy W. Demery, Jr.
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