Railway Construction Act

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The Railway Construction Act (Japanese: 鉄道敷設法, Hepburn: Tetsudō Fusetsu-hō, Law No. 4 of 1892) was promulgated by the Diet of Japan on June 21, 1892, and designated government support for a network of thirty-three railway lines covering most of Japan, with the exception of Hokkaidō. On April 11, 1922, the Diet amended the law to add an additional network of regional and local routes. Today, these lines form the backbone of the national railway network, JR (although JR has relinquished control of some of the more minor ones).

Notable main lines before the Act

The lines in following list don't appear the act, because operated already or soon.

Tokyo — Gotenba — Nagoya — Gifu — Maibara — Kusatsu — Kyoto — Osaka — Kōbe

Tokyo — Hachiōji

Takasaki — Shinonoi — Nagano — Toyono — Naoetsu

Maibara — Tsuruga

Ōmiya — Takasaki — Maebashi

Tokyo — Ōmiya — Shirakawa — Fukushima — Iwanuma — Sendai — Kogota — Kitakami — Morioka — Aomori

Tokyo — Mito

Nagoya — Kameyama — Tsuge — Kusatsu

Osaka — Ōji — Nara

Ōji — Takada

Kōbe — Himeji — Okayama — Mihara

Marugame — Tadotsu — Kotohira

Moji — Kokura — Hakata — Tosu — Kurume — Ōmuta — Kumamoto

Tosu — Saga

Wakamatsu — Iizuka

References

Railway Construction Act Wikipedia

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