Railway electrification in Japan

Updated on Sep 19, 2024

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This is a list of Railway Electrification Systems in Japan: Overhead line power supply, unless otherwise noted.

1435 mm Gauge

Hakone Tozan Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm and 1435 mm (Dual gauge)

Hanwa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Hokuriku Main Line (Maibara - Tsuruga, and Itoigawa - Naoetsu) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Hokuriku Railroad Asanogawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Hokuriku Railroad Ishikawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Hokushin Kyūkō Electric Railway – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Hokusō Railway Hokusō Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Honshi-Bisan Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ichibata Electric Railway – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Iga Railway Iga Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Iida Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Itō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Itsukaichi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Izuhakone Railway Daiyūzan Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Izu Kyūkō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Jōban Line (Nippori - Toride) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Jōetsu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Jōmō Electric Railway Jōmō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kabe Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kakogawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kansai Airport Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kansai Main Line (Nagoya - Kameyama, and Kamo - JR Namba) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Karatsu Line (Karatsu – Nishi-Karatsu) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kashima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Katamachi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kawagoe Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Ishiyama Sakamoto Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Katano Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Keihan Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Keishin Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Nakanoshima Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Ōtō Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihan Electric Railway Uji Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keihin-Tohoku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm (officially part of Tōkaidō Main Line, Tohoku Main Line)

Keikyu Electric Railway Airport Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keikyu Electric Railway Daishi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keikyu Electric Railway Keikyu Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keikyu Electric Railway Kurihama Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keikyu Electric Railway Zushi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Dōbutsuen Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Inokashira Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Keibajō Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Keiō Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Keiō New Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Sagamihara Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keiō Electric Railway Takao Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Chiba Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Chihara Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Higashi-Narita Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Kanamachi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Keisei Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Narita Airport Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keisei Electric Railway Oshiage Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Keiyō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Domyoji Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Gose Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Ikoma Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Kashihara Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Kyoto Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Nagano Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Nagoya Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Namba Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Nara Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Osaka Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Shigi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Shima Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Suzuka Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Tawaramoto Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Tenri Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Toba Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Yamada Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kintetsu Yoshino Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kintetsu Yunoyama Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kisei Main Line (Wakayamashi – Shingū) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kitakinki Tango Railway Miyazu Line (Miyazu - Amanohashidate) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kitakyushu monorail – 1500 V DC, Straddle-beam Monorail, Side contact

Kōbe Electric Railway Ao Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōbe Electric Railway Arima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōbe Electric Railway Kōen-Toshi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōbe Electric Railway Kōbe Kōsoku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōbe Electric Railway Sanda Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōbe Line (JR West) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm (officially part of Tōkaidō Main Line and Sanyō Main Line)

Kōbe Municipal Subway Kaigan Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm, linear motor

Kōbe Municipal Subway Seishin-Yamate Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kōbe Rapid Transit Tōzai Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kōnan Railway Kōnan Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kōnan Railway Ōwani Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kosei Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kotoden Kotohira Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kotoden Nagao Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kotoden Shido Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kure Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kusatsu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Maihama Resort Line Disney Resort Line - 1500 V DC, Straddle-beam monorail

Maizuru Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Airport Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Bisai Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Chikkō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Chita New Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Gamagōri Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Hashima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Hiromi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Inuyama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Komaki Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Kōwa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Mikawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Nishio Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Seto Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Takehana Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Tokoname Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Toyokawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Toyota Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Meitetsu Tsushima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Minobu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Mito Line (Near the Oyama Station) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Mizuma Railway Mizuma Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Musashino Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nagano Electric Railway Nagano Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nagoya Municipal Subway Kamiiida Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nagoya Municipal Subway Sakura-dōri Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nagoya Municipal Subway Tsurumai Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nagoya Seaside Rapid railway Aonami Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Namboku Line (Kobe) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nambu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Kada Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Koya Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Takashinohama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Tanagawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nankai Wakayamako Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Narita Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Negishi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Nikkō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Obama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Odakyu Odawara Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Odakyu Enoshima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Odakyu Tama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ohmi Railway Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ohmi Railway Taga Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ohmi Railway Yōkaichi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ōigawa Railway Ikawa Line (Abt Ichishiro – Nagashima Dam) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ōigawa Railway Ōigawa Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ōito Line (Matsumoto – Minami-Otari) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Okinawa Monorail – 1500 V DC, Straddle-beam monorail, Side contact

Ome Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Onoda Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Osaka Loop Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Osaka Monorail – 1500 V DC, Straddle–beam monorail, Side contact

Osaka Municipal Subway Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm, linear motors

Osaka Municipal Subway Sakaisuji Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Ryōmō Line - 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ryutetsu Nagareyama Line - 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sagami Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sagami Railway Izumino Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sagami Railway Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Saikyo Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm (officially part of Tōhoku Main Line, Akabane Line and Yamanote Freight Line)

Saitama Rapid Railway Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sakurai Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sakurajima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sangi Railway Sangi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

San'in Main Line(Kyoto – Kinosaki Onsen, and Hōki-Daisen – Nishi-Izumo) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sanyo Electric Railway Aboshi Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Sanyō Main Line (Kōbe - Shimonoseki, and Hyōgo - Wadamisaki) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sapporo Municipal Subway Tōhō Line – 1500 V DC, Rubber-tyred metro

Sapporo Municipal Subway Tōzai Line – 1500 V DC, Rubber-tyred metro

Seibu Chichibu Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Haijima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Ikebukuro Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Kokubunji Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Sayama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Shinjuku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Tamagawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Tamako Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Toshima Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Seibu Yurakucho Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Semboku Rapid Railway – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sendai Subway Namboku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sendai Subway Tōzai Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm, linear motors

Senseki Line(Aoba-dōri – Takagimachi) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Shibayama Railway – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Shin'etsu Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Shin-Keisei Electric Railway Shin-Keisei Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Shinonoi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Shonan Monorail – 1500 V DC, Suspended monorail, Side contact

Sobu Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Sotobō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Takasaki Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tama Toshi Monorail Line – 1500 V DC, Straddle-beam monorail, Side contact

Tobu Daishi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōbu Kiryū Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Isesaki Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Kameido Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Kinugawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Koizumi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Nikkō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Ogose Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Sano Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Skytree Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Tojo Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Urban Park Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tobu Utsunomiya Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toei Asakusa Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Toei Mita Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toei Oedo Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm, linear motor

Toei Shinjuku Line – 1500 V DC, 1372 mm

Tōgane Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tohoku Main Line(Tokyo – Kuroiso) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkaidō Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line – 1500 V

Tokyo Metro Namboku Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Tozai Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Ikegami Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Meguro Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Ōimachi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Tamagawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōkyū Tōyoko Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōzai Line (JR West) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toyama Chihō Railway Fujikoshi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toyama Chihō Railway Kamidaki Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tōyō Rapid Railway Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tsukuba Express(Akihabara - Moriya) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Tsurumi Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ube Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Uchibō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Ueda Electric Railway Bessho Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Uno Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Utsunomiya Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm (officially part of Tōhoku Main Line)

Wakayama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yahiko Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yamanote Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yamatoji Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm (officially part of Kansai Main Line)

Yokohama Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Kodomonokuni Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Minato Mirai Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line – 1500 V DC, 1435 mm

Yokosuka Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Yosan Line (Takamatsu - Iyoshi) – 1500 V DC, 1067 mm

Other Gauges

Kurobe Gorge Railway - 600 V DC, 762 mm

Hakodate City Tram - 600 V DC, 1372 mm

Tōkyū Setagaya Line – 600 V DC, 1372 mm

Toden Arakawa Line – 600 V DC, 1372 mm (only surviving Tokyo Toden)

Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus - 600 V DC, Trolleybus

Tateyama Tunnel Trolleybus - 600 V DC, Trolleybus

Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line - 600 V DC, 1435 mm, third rail

Nagoya Municipal Subway Meijō Line - 600 V DC, 1435 mm, third rail

Nagoya Municipal Subway Meikō Line - 600 V DC, 1435 mm, third rail

Tokyo Metro Ginza Line – 600 V DC, 1435 mm, third rail

Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line – 600 V DC, 1435 mm, third rail

Ueno Zoo Monorail – 600 V DC, Suspended Monorail, overhead contact

600 V AC

Kobe New Transit Port Island Line – 600 V AC 60 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

Kobe New Transit Rokkō Island Line – 600 V AC 60 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

Osaka Municipal Nanko Port Town Line – 600 V AC 60 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

Saitama New Urban Transit Ina Line (New Shuttle) – 600 V AC 50 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

Tokyo Metropolitan Nippori-Toneri Liner – 600 V AC 50 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line (Yurikamome) – 600 V AC 50 Hz three–phase, People mover, side contact

References

Railway electrification in Japan Wikipedia

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1435 mm Gauge

Other Gauges

600 V AC

References