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Railway electrification in Japan

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

Contents

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