Links to Railways in Japan
collection of links to mainly English-language sites
(see below for information of how to read Japanese web-pages)
Ministry and and similar organisations:
Research institutions/Maglev:
Japan Railways Group:
Private Railways:
around Tokyo:
rest of Japan:
Manufacturers:
Others:
Museums
Private Pages:
general:
single companies and lines around Tokyo:
single companies in other areas:
Railway modelling:
Other pages:
How to read Japanese web-pages with a non-Japanese operating system:
If your computer does not have a Japanese operating system, then you will not see anything else but "Å@ìåãûÇÌínâºìSÇÍÅAèºò" instead of kanji and kana characters on your screen. The Japanese characters come as JIS-codes, and so using a program that can work with these codes you will be able to see what is written there. I recommend JWP for that if you have Windows. Save the web-page on your harddisk as txt-format, then open this file in JWP. As JWP has a built-in dictionary, it is not difficult to understand the pages, even if you have only a very basic knowledge of Japanese. See Markus Gunske von Kölln's page Kanji in e-mail about information on this subject (also other operating systems than Windows) and links to download JWP. More links to sites about computer and Japanese on my Japan-page.
And if you do not want to do that, it is often worth loading Japanese web-pages, because there are very nice photos which can be seen using any operating-system!
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