Overview
Railway is the one of the transportation facilities with wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. A Rail vehicle which is called ”train” is guided by that tracks on which it runs.
Tracks are consisted of two steel rails except monorails and any other people mover.
The first railway in Japan opened in 1868. Now Japan has just over 30,000kms of rail track, and more than 100 railway companies. Many cities in Japan, like Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Sapporo and run their own subways, trams (streetcars), and/or other rail-based public transport as well.
On pixiv
On pixiv, there are the illustrations of train car body, railway route map, scenery with trains and so on. Railway Personification illustrations, which depict humans based on trains, are also plentiful.
Relation words
Train Monorail People mover Station Rail Pantograph
Bullet train Shinkansen KTX TGV Thalys AVE Eurostar ICE CRH
Article in Other Languages
鉄道(Japanese)
