norikata 乗り方
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Trains, trams and buses in Japan

How to ride local transport in Japan

Google Maps tells you when and where. This guide tells you how: which door to use, whether to take a numbered ticket, where and how to pay, whether an IC card works, and what to do at unstaffed stations.

21lines with how-to guides
375guided stations & stops
597railway lines in Japan
5850bus & ferry routes

Plan your trip

Before you go

Getting around

On the day

Lines with how-to guides

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Every fact on these guides comes from the operator's own pages or timetable data, with sources. For all other lines see every railway in Japan and buses and ferries.

Tōhoku

Kantō

Chūbu

TramToyama 富山県

Manyōsen 万葉線

IC ✓Pay on board

25 stops · draft

Kansai

RailwayMie 三重県

Ise Railway 伊勢鉄道

IC ✗One-manPay on board

10 stations · draft

Shikoku

Kyūshū

How to read the marks

E Timetable facts (times, and fares where the feed has them) from GTFS-JP open data.

P How-to facts from the operator's own pages, with the page and the date we checked it. Quotes are kept short and linked to the source.

Anything no source states is shown as “Not confirmed — check on site”.

Draft: 406 of 406 guides are not yet reviewed by a person. Facts were transcribed on 2026-10-10.