There is an error in the data. 3:12 Length of Toyo Rapid Railway should be 16.2km 8:17 Total length should be 4904.3km (Please note that shared tracks between operators are recounted in the total length) My apologies for the mistake. 😞 Thanks to those who commented the error!
I wouldn’t call the Tokyo Metro a “privately owned subway”, the government of Japan own 53% of it and the Tokyo metropolitan government own the other 47%
One point for those who are not familiar with Japanese railways. The last JR East Railway is a core railway company that inherited most of the railroad tracks from the old Japanese National Railways. Other companies are called "private railways" and some distinctions are made.
I remember I was at Yokohama station heading towards shinjuku, the local there showed me 3 trains, 2 above ground and 1 underground. All in the next 20 minutes.
Uh, no. There are rail transit systems in cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Orlando, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Portland, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and more. Tokyo is amazing but it can't beat the entire rail network of a whole country.
Lol almost all rich countries have a better rail system than the USA the USA’s rail networks are comparable to 3rd world so called shit 🕳 countries. China is a former shit 🕳
@@shivtim NYC has the worst reliability on the planet with constant very disruptive service changes nearly every weekend adding nearly 30 mins extra to travel time. Chicago is a dangerous city and their metra trains are poor in frequency and reliability buses are not that fast or good for getting around the city beyond downtown, Philadelphia is a crumbling embarrassment and their regional rail trains are old and infrequent for its infrastructure, Boston is a dumpster fire with constant issues and poor connectivity, Washington DC is straight up too infrequent to use and connecting buses need to be more like Toronto, Atlanta is a joke traffic everywhere and barely any train 3 lines and a stub to nowhere , Baltimore? You serious bro one line metro and they can’t even get the red line approved, Charlotte umm street running extensively in downtown is unreliable and slow 1 line 2 lines peak only express buses are not impressive, Phoenix only has one line in a city with millions, Denver at least they try, San Francisco that hot mess of a city with so many uncoordinated agencies infrequent buses where it’s needed and a fragmented rail network yeah ok let me know when the drug addicts leave, San Jose? HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHHAAH WOW You call that a system? Cincinnati has no rail transit worth using a meager streetcar cute, USA has some of the worst transit systems on earth or at least the rich world.
Rinkai Line runs entirely underground, but it's basically an extension of JR Saikyo line. The trains run through all the way to Saitama, so you can call it heavy rail as well.
Quite right. In the 1900s Japan gave the job to a German engineer named Franz Balzer to design and build the eastern side of the Yamanote Line. Franz was also instrumental in the design of Berlins elevated lines.
Some of the lines in this movie are not convenient lines like Tokyo metro or Yamanote Line, but peaceful lines that run across the countryside areas, such as Choshi Electric Railway, Kominato Railway, Chichibu Railway, and some JR East lines. If we get on these lines, we can see beautiful scenerys and feel if we are in the past period by seeing old stations,trains,and streejs.
@@jianmingliu2767 No, Central América aré the countries that are to the sputh of México. The countries o this region are Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.
Thank you for putting in all this work, trying to sift through internet articles and Wikipedia pages beforehand to gather all this knowledge myself to no avail makes me appreciate the work you put into research for this monster of a topic, not to mention the quality!
I am Japanese and I live in Tokyo central. Almost everyone who lives in Tokyo uses these rail networks to get to work and school, but also for shopping and sightseeing. (People in Tokyo central don't use cars much, because parking is expensive and the roads are congested.) How does this network really feel to people from abroad? Complex? Beautiful? Chaotic?
i became a railfan during my first visit to Japan, from the local lines with 1-2 cars, up to the Shinkansen, the system is really great. i assumed it was chaotic transferring to other lines before the IC card was implemented, now you just load up the card and the system will handle the rest. what i liked the most is the 'last mile' local lines to the suburbs, in most countries only the major points get access to the railway network. i had 3 flights to Japan already cancelled post-COVID, i am waiting to return again 😄
Even though Japan is the developed country, car ownership in Tokyo sits extremely low with 0.4 cars per household, because citizens have trust in public transportation so much.
Someone more intelligent than me once said that how fully developed a city is may be inversely proportional to how many theoretical journeys, completely inside the city limits, require a car or motorbike. (Paraphrasing because I’m only half remembering)
It's not despite the fact that Tokyo is developed, but because of it that car ownership is so low. As Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá said: "An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport."
As you see, the map is so confusing but also there are several train types in each lines... Example: ↑Faster Limited Express(Express surcharges):特急(有料特急) usually named like Skyliner or Romancecar or etc. Rapid Limited Express:快速特急 →Keikyu(京急) Line Rapid Express:快速急行→Seibu(西武) Line Limited Express(No Express surcharges):特急 Semi Special Express:準特急 →Keio(京王) Line (Commute-) Express:(通勤)急行 Semi Express:区間急行 (Commute-) Semi Express:(通勤)準急 Rapid:快速 Local Train:普通、各駅停車 stops at Each stations ↓Slower And some lines have -liner(Express with reserved seats and additional fees) or Airport Express... And some trains have different stops in the morning or evening or weekdays etc.... And most lines runs through other company's lines so if you sleep in the last train you can't come back...(T ^ T) It's very complicated so you'd better use "Route Search" sites and Suica card. Example: world.jorudan.co.jp/mln/en/?sub_lang=ja
The reasons for the success of Japanese private railway companies without nationalization are largely due to ancillary businesses rather than the railroad lines themselves. They worked on a set of railroad lines and urban development along the lines. This approach coincided with the period of rapid economic growth after WWII.
City planning in central Tokyo basically eliminates cars and is designed primarily for railroads, so advanced land use around the station is progressing. Cars require 160 times more space than people.
Ironically, which is actually the American model back in the 19th century, but on a much more condensed scale. The WHOLE city positioning in the continental USA was based on its private railroad constructions back then.
Wow, all the major and minor railways included, geez those efforts must be countless… Kudos man, I’m pretty sure that you know more than the locals who live in the railways in Tokyo
Great video, and good job on the graphics And thanks for being specific about which "Tokyo" is being considered - often people just take into consideration the 23 wards and only count TOEI/Tokyo Metro (which is incorrect considering everything is really high density commuter rail - Yamanote Line has a lot of characteristics of a subway/metro line)
If they can be merged into 1~3 operators and establish united fare system then I would say they have the best railway system. But in the reality, most of these companies are more like real estate developer companies. They build residential buildings, their own department stores and shopping malls all around their own train stations. That's how they make their profits not the ticket sales.
I don't know if that stats even exists for all of them. For the metro, subway and JR East - sure. For a random line somewhere on the border of Kanto region - I doubt it.
Also note that many lines of different companies share the same trains/stations/rolling stock. For example an Odakyu Line train might run strait into the Chiyoda Subway Line, and the Fukutoshin Metro line directly connects to the Tokyu Toyoko Line, which directly connects into the Minato Mirai Line, essentially 3-4 different train companies, operatating seemlessly.
Yes, this is really surprising for me, even living in Japan more than 20 years. I just can't understand why the complicated railroad newtork operates so accurate and safe.
@@japanezeboyOK its because the companies have their best interests in working together in providing a safe and reliable journey for passengers while also expanding their business even if they hate each other such as in the case in London, England where the original railway companies had a battle which was the Metropolitan Railway vs. the District Railway where they worked together on expanding their companies while also being competitors and working together because if they did not work together then they would end up building competing lines that would be loss makers for all parties involved. And now I've explained Capitalism 101...
To say that in Montreal, we only have 2 rail based transit operators and the existing company decided to pick a fight with the newcomer. The amount of compagnies that work seamlessly in Tokyo is mindboggling.
Yea man thats the problem with transit in the Americas. Every train, bus, even stores and goods can be purchased with an IC card in Japan. In the US, every city has their own transit card that ONLY works for transit
@@sntmse If you display all the networks of JR East, you will be able to see Aomori, which is more than 700km away from Tokyo. I can't speak English, so please forgive me for using a translation site.
I just love how the 4.1km stretch of the Minatomirai Line carries more people in a day (as of 2015) as my city’s ENTIRE daily ridership as of 2018/19 That being said Tokyo’s population is somewhat comparable to all of Canada and I’m in just one city in Canada.
@@sunglassdubsteps5268 yes, that’s the line that connects Seibu Ikebukuro to the Fukutoshin/Yurakucho subway lines but I don’t really count it to be a major line
Choshi Railroad is registered with the Imperial Data Bank as a rice cracker business because its profits from rice crackers are larger than its profits from the railroad.
My city has been building an 3.45 km rail tunnel under the CBD after it was first proposed 70 years ago and is still taking them 11 years with 2 billion dollars budget overruns and numerous delays
Amazing video, tons of research put into this amazingly made video. The Greater Tokyo Area rail network is massive, and I don’t think anything can compete with the rail network. I wonder why you censored some of the numbers though? Is it because UA-cam dislikes certain numbers?
For people who found that some common words appear in the names of railways: -den: abbreviation of "den-tetsu", itself abbreviation of "denki-tetsudo" (electric railway) -kyu: abbreviation of "kyuko" (express)
In a documentary recently on television, one of the people primarily responsible for public transport in Tokyo said that there are plans to introduce a network and zones, as already existed in many cities around the world. Otherwise this megacity cannot expand further in public transport.
If you are visiting Tokyo, a Metro day ticket, and one of the colour-coded rail maps they have, is all you really need for the inner city area. The same goes for the city of Osaka. These are the best underground systems in the world.
@@CPTE5069 If you are visiting Tokyo, a JR pass will only be useful for the Yamanote line, and a couple of other lines. It can't be used for the Tokyo Metro or the Toei Line underground systems.
okay so I live in Tokyo and I haven't heard of so many of these lines especially out in ibaraki and chiba... 44 million people ride the train every day... Probably the majority of those are round-trip... so it's safe to say that the equivalent to at least the entire population of Australia or Texas uses this system every single day... if not Canada or California...
Enoden isn't a tram ,but a light train....very specific in japan,with for example, Keihan in Osaka Aera. Keisei don't go at Haneda Airport,she use the Keikyu tracks and Asakusa Line (interconnexion)
Yes the train station has deep roots in the Japanese community normally the focal point of towns and cities. Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, and Shibuya were virtually uninhabited until the railway arrived in 1885.
That said, I commend the creator of this vid for being specific about what "Tokyo" is being discussed. Not enough to just cover the 23 special wards IMO
@@jmstransit Agreed. Especially since the video is about the Tokyo rail system. Although, I will say that some of those lines in Saitama, Chiba and Gifu look a little far out to me.
@@leafbottle9420 I don't either, for the most part. I know plenty of people who commute from Oomiya or Chiba or even Utsunomiya. However, I thought that perhaps that, for instance, the Kinugawa line probably didn't need to be included but maybe people commute from there to Tokyo as well. I'm not sure.
There is an error in the data.
3:12 Length of Toyo Rapid Railway should be 16.2km
8:17 Total length should be 4904.3km
(Please note that shared tracks between operators are recounted in the total length)
My apologies for the mistake. 😞 Thanks to those who commented the error!
Plus you also done a video of Tokyo back in February. :)
ua-cam.com/video/UHKY2NeLkNg/v-deo.html
Еман 4 тыща километров, это кажется как всю Евразию проехать.
I wouldn’t call the Tokyo Metro a “privately owned subway”, the government of Japan own 53% of it and the Tokyo metropolitan government own the other 47%
Have You made an google maps or google earth project and could share link to it if so?
I think the Sotetsu line extended to Shinjuku in late 2019
8:17ここの真ん中にぽっかり空いたとこが皇居ってのが絶妙にかっこいい
pink bloodの宇多田ヒカルみたい
One point for those who are not familiar with Japanese railways. The last JR East Railway is a core railway company that inherited most of the railroad tracks from the old Japanese National Railways. Other companies are called "private railways" and some distinctions are made.
and it has the Shinkansen.
JR東海の御殿場線も
tourists "it's absolutely impossible to understand this whole map."
locals "me too bro."
I can understand(live near TOKYO)
私、全く鉄ヲタでは無いんですが、こういう広く深い知識、ストレス無く見られる編集、それらにかかる労力を考えると、
こういう動画を作る人には感謝と尊敬しか無い。
同じく
俺も鉄オタでは無いんですが、凄い見入っちゃいました。こんないっぱい鉄道会社と路線ってあるんですね！
東京民でも一生乗る機会のない路線も多いんだろうなあ
@@umakara55
ユ ー カ リ が 丘 線
@@tracksray9542芝山鉄道線とどっちが乗らないかは見どころ
How much mileage and coverage do you want??
Tokyo metropolitan railway : *yes*
atleast we can learn something=if playing city building games,make its public network wide and effective like tokyo's rail system
And what is really amazing with this is that almost all of the lines use two of the same transit cards!
And they are compatible, including cards used in several other metropolitan areas.
Suika from JR
Pasmo from the others
日本語で失礼します。その2枚のカードも互換性がありますので、ほとんど1枚のカードでバスや鉄道に乗れます。
他の日本の大都市や中規模都市も大抵はこのカードが使えます。
日本人でも楽しめる動画
東京わ、日本の驕傲です
東武の圧倒的な路線長よ
一気に画面が引きになるの圧巻やな
大阪 名古屋の動画があったとして近鉄の時が気になります
縦に伸びてるのも強いよね
日光まで行きますからね。
0:07 Tokyo Metro
0:17 Toei Subway
0:28 Tokyo Electric
0:38 Nippori Toneri Liner
0:47 Saitama Rapid Railway
0:58 Rinkai Line
1:08 New Transportation Yurikamome
1:18 Tokyo Monorail
1:28 Keihin Kyuko Railway
1:38 Tokyu Railway
1:48 Odakyu Railway
1:59 Keio Electric Railway
2:09 Seibu Railway
2:19 Tobu Railway
2:29 Tsukuba Express
2:39 Keisei Electric Railway
2:49 Shin-Keisei Electric Railway
3:00 Hokuso Railway
3:09 Toyo Rapid Railway
3:20 Yokohama Municipal Subway
3:30 Minato Mirai Line
3:39 Sagami Railway
3:50 Kanazawa Seaside Line
3:59 Enoshima Electric Railway
4:08 Shonan Monorail
4:18 Tama Urban Monorail
4:28 ryutetsu
4:38 Eucalyptus Hill Line
4:47 Chiba Urban Monorail
4:58 Shibayama Railway
5:07 JR East (Tokyo metropolitan area)
5:19 JR Gotemba Line
5:28 Hakone Tozan Railway Line
5:38 Daiyuzan Line
5:48 Fuji Express Line
5:58 New Shuttle
6:07 Chichibu Railway
6:16 Joshin Electric Railway
6:27 Jomo Electric Railway
6:36 Watarase Valley Railway Line
6:46 Aizu-Kinugawa Line
6:55 Moka Railway
7:06 Kanto Railway
7:15 Disney Resort Line
7:26 Kominato Railway Line
7:35 Isumi Railway
7:45 Choshi Electric Railway
7:55 Oarai Kashima Line
8:06 Hitachinaka Seaside Railway
8:17 Metropolitan area railway network
よく有能って言われない？
@ まあ
ユーカリが丘線が出てくるの激アツだった。
I remember I was at Yokohama station heading towards shinjuku, the local there showed me 3 trains, 2 above ground and 1 underground. All in the next 20 minutes.
Yes service and options are incredible. Plus helpful locals make for a great experience.
流鉄とかユーカリが丘線まで網羅されててなんか嬉しかった
これだけ複雑な鉄道網の中心が皇居で、そこだけぽっかりと空いてるのもまた美しいんだよな
めっちゃ分かる
その皇居に向かい合う形で起点駅となる東京駅が建ってるのも美しい
JRは元国鉄だから置いておくとして東武が別次元すぎる
他の私鉄には比べ物にならない位な存在感だったよね
流石最長距離日本の私鉄第2位！！
@@舞倉メトロ 第2位で最長距離？笑
@@クラッカーマヨネーズ-y5d
日本の私鉄最長距離ってことでは？
間違っていたらごめん
@たかてつ そうですよ
首都圏でこの鉄道網すげえなやっぱ
Tokyo alone have better train system than the entire USA.
Agree!
Uh, no. There are rail transit systems in cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Orlando, St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Portland, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and more. Tokyo is amazing but it can't beat the entire rail network of a whole country.
Lol almost all rich countries have a better rail system than the USA the USA’s rail networks are comparable to 3rd world so called shit 🕳 countries. China is a former shit 🕳
@@shivtim those systems are all garbage either very unreliable or small and useless
@@shivtim NYC has the worst reliability on the planet with constant very disruptive service changes nearly every weekend adding nearly 30 mins extra to travel time. Chicago is a dangerous city and their metra trains are poor in frequency and reliability buses are not that fast or good for getting around the city beyond downtown, Philadelphia is a crumbling embarrassment and their regional rail trains are old and infrequent for its infrastructure, Boston is a dumpster fire with constant issues and poor connectivity, Washington DC is straight up too infrequent to use and connecting buses need to be more like Toronto, Atlanta is a joke traffic everywhere and barely any train 3 lines and a stub to nowhere , Baltimore? You serious bro one line metro and they can’t even get the red line approved, Charlotte umm street running extensively in downtown is unreliable and slow 1 line 2 lines peak only express buses are not impressive, Phoenix only has one line in a city with millions, Denver at least they try, San Francisco that hot mess of a city with so many uncoordinated agencies infrequent buses where it’s needed and a fragmented rail network yeah ok let me know when the drug addicts leave, San Jose? HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHHAAH WOW You call that a system? Cincinnati has no rail transit worth using a meager streetcar cute, USA has some of the worst transit systems on earth or at least the rich world.
Rinkai Line runs entirely underground, but it's basically an extension of JR Saikyo line. The trains run through all the way to Saitama, so you can call it heavy rail as well.
Actually, the rails at Osaki Station and Shin-Kiba Station are above ground.
@@jph4852 not all actually some train station in the area are above
The JR line network in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the S-Bahn network in the Berlin metropolitan area are similar in type.
JR is like a super version
Quite right. In the 1900s Japan gave the job to a German engineer named Franz Balzer to design and build the eastern side of the Yamanote Line.
Franz was also instrumental in the design of Berlins elevated lines.
東京23区って首都の面積的な規模でいえばそこまで大きくないけど、鉄道網がほんとにバグってるレベルで発達してるんだよな。あの範囲に地下鉄13路線はほんとすごい
日本のインフラは世界一ィ！
JR登場かっこよすぎた
地図が引いてから出てくる感じが良かった
俺は大トリとして最後に出てくると思ってた
@@ゆっくん-o5y それはすごく思った
5:05 いちばん短い芝山鉄道の次&音楽がかっこいいと言うのもあって超カッコよくなってるw
中盤に出てくるところにセンスを感じる
Went to tokyo once and asked a random local where the subway station is, ended up with him showing me 7 different maps…
Probably a densha otaku (train nerd) lol
They're quite literally at every station in major Japanese cities
It can be confusing especially back in the day of maps. Google maps and translation makes this a breeze now.
オタクが海外で認知されてんの草
@@物理のエッセンス-z1dオタクはマンガ、アニメと同じ時に海外に広まったからね
@@物理のエッセンス-z1dガチ草😂
Some of the lines in this movie are not convenient lines like Tokyo metro or Yamanote Line, but peaceful lines that run across the countryside areas, such as Choshi Electric Railway, Kominato Railway, Chichibu Railway, and some JR East lines. If we get on these lines, we can see beautiful scenerys and feel if we are in the past period by seeing old stations,trains,and streejs.
柴山鉄道がちゃんと紹介されたの見ると気分めちゃくちゃ盛り上がるな…と思ってたら小湊が出てきてフォォォォってなった。
そうです、私は千葉県民です。
No way! No way!! There's more lines only at Tokyo than in Central and South America combined 😅😅
Creo que de todo el planeta xd
And USA too!
@@eduardoalagostorres3777 Bruh Central America includes USA
@@jianmingliu2767 No, Central América aré the countries that are to the sputh of México.
The countries o this region are Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama.
@@eduardoalagostorres3777 actually usa have a big rail network but most of the line are privately own and they are for freight trains only
Holy wow ... with all the different modes and operating companies, that is *insanely* complicated ... but incredibly comprehensive!
まさか地下鉄以外の路線もやるとは思ってなかったww
ありがてえ
せやなぁ
ちょうど日本のコメント探してた
せやなぁ
Thank you for putting in all this work, trying to sift through internet articles and Wikipedia pages beforehand to gather all this knowledge myself to no avail makes me appreciate the work you put into research for this monster of a topic, not to mention the quality!
日常過ぎて何とも思わないけど改めて見ると凄いなこれwww
グラスゴー地下鉄と見比べるとすごい
日常じゃない田舎民が通ります
ほとんどが20世紀に開業してるのもすごい
I am Japanese and I live in Tokyo central.
Almost everyone who lives in Tokyo uses these rail networks to get to work and school, but also for shopping and sightseeing.
(People in Tokyo central don't use cars much, because parking is expensive and the roads are congested.)
How does this network really feel to people from abroad?
Complex? Beautiful? Chaotic?
If you translate the comments you can see everyone admires and likes Tokyo's railway.
i became a railfan during my first visit to Japan, from the local lines with 1-2 cars, up to the Shinkansen, the system is really great.
i assumed it was chaotic transferring to other lines before the IC card was implemented, now you just load up the card and the system will handle the rest.
what i liked the most is the 'last mile' local lines to the suburbs, in most countries only the major points get access to the railway network.
i had 3 flights to Japan already cancelled post-COVID, i am waiting to return again 😄
これほど複雑なシステムをよく回してるなといつも感心していますw
It feels very impressive and very convenient.
複雑な東京の鉄道網を完全に理解している…
これは猛者じゃの…
なんちゅう名前しとんねん笑笑
東京一極集中 日本最強都心
@@Mr.BoXunQiu
大阪(関西)の路線図もかなり複雑です。
Even though Japan is the developed country, car ownership in Tokyo sits extremely low with 0.4 cars per household, because citizens have trust in public transportation so much.
Someone more intelligent than me once said that how fully developed a city is may be inversely proportional to how many theoretical journeys, completely inside the city limits, require a car or motorbike. (Paraphrasing because I’m only half remembering)
It’s also a much more walkable city than any city in America. Everything you need is within a walkable distance.
And Tokyo car parkings are insanely expensive too.
Plus there’s car sharing now so if you really need a car you just grab one
It's not despite the fact that Tokyo is developed, but because of it that car ownership is so low. As Enrique Peñalosa, a former mayor of Bogotá said: "An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport."
まさか首都圏鉄道網の動画もつくるとは😁
大阪もやって欲しい
In August of this year, "Utsunomiya Light Line" opened in Tochigi Prefecture.
(Light rail, 14.6km)
Probably one of the most comprehensive Tokyo urban area railway network video on UA-cam. It's really well made. Thanks for the work.
There is no doubt about that. I'm sure this must of taken many hours work before even starting the animation.
As you see, the map is so confusing but also there are several train types in each lines...
Example:
↑Faster
Limited Express(Express surcharges):特急(有料特急) usually named like Skyliner or Romancecar or etc.
Rapid Limited Express:快速特急 →Keikyu(京急) Line
Rapid Express:快速急行→Seibu(西武) Line
Limited Express(No Express surcharges):特急
Semi Special Express:準特急 →Keio(京王) Line
(Commute-) Express:(通勤)急行
Semi Express:区間急行
(Commute-) Semi Express:(通勤)準急
Rapid:快速
Local Train:普通、各駅停車 stops at Each stations
↓Slower
And some lines have -liner(Express with reserved seats and additional fees) or Airport Express...
And some trains have different stops in the morning or evening or weekdays etc....
And most lines runs through other company's lines so if you sleep in the last train you can't come back...(T ^ T)
It's very complicated so you'd better use "Route Search" sites and Suica card.
Example: world.jorudan.co.jp/mln/en/?sub_lang=ja
The reasons for the success of Japanese private railway companies without nationalization are largely due to ancillary businesses rather than the railroad lines themselves.
They worked on a set of railroad lines and urban development along the lines. This approach coincided with the period of rapid economic growth after WWII.
Very much evident in railway-owned department stores and other business through the keiretsu/zaibatsu business model systems
City planning in central Tokyo basically eliminates cars and is designed primarily for railroads, so advanced land use around the station is progressing. Cars require 160 times more space than people.
Ironically, which is actually the American model back in the 19th century, but on a much more condensed scale.
The WHOLE city positioning in the continental USA was based on its private railroad constructions back then.
transit oriented development...
Noted, will tell my government
Wow, all the major and minor railways included, geez those efforts must be countless…
Kudos man, I’m pretty sure that you know more than the locals who live in the railways in Tokyo
You have out done yourself 👏🏾 I love the way the lines snake and jive
Great video, and good job on the graphics
And thanks for being specific about which "Tokyo" is being considered - often people just take into consideration the 23 wards and only count TOEI/Tokyo Metro (which is incorrect considering everything is really high density commuter rail - Yamanote Line has a lot of characteristics of a subway/metro line)
ココでは割愛されていますが、ロープウェーやケーブルカーの一部も、市民の足として利用されているので、そのデータも含めると更に増えそうですね。
御殿場線をいれるなら、東海道新幹線（東京～小田原）もあるとよいかも？
This is why Shanghai Metro may have longest metro now, but nothing can compare with Tokyo’s mass transit system (commuter rail + metro).
Paris maybe.
@@clemsuryoutube798
Ce n’est pas comparable
@@okis8087 Paris is 1550km lenght including metro RER and transilien.With the future GPEx(250km) it's 1800km.
@@Lodai974 Greater Tokyo’s Rail Network is over 4900km.. put subtitles on at 8:21
@@montrealresident8223 I mean Paris is much smaller.
Now I understand why they say Tokyo has the best railway system in the entire world.
Maybe not, because they have a big system, but not really efficient... It is quite slow...
@@clemsuryoutube798 Well many lines have express trains
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JR and private railways compete for speed and price.
So most of the trains are speedy. By user of railway in Tokyo
If they can be merged into 1~3 operators and establish united fare system then I would say they have the best railway system. But in the reality, most of these companies are more like real estate developer companies. They build residential buildings, their own department stores and shopping malls all around their own train stations. That's how they make their profits not the ticket sales.
@@DMTHOTH This form of private hyper-TOD should be a model for every city. (Or public policy)
ユーカリが丘線とかいう日本人でも地域住民か鉄オタしか知らんようなドマイナー路線まで網羅してるのシンプルに凄い
最高に感動しました。1:26 京急が出てきた時は特に気持ちが昂ぶりました。そして5:06 JR東日本の長大な鉄道網とその歴史の深さに今一度思いを馳せることが出来ました。素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。
Me: Wow, that network looks insane!
JR EAST: 5:07 Hold my Sake.
In fact, these all railways are running on time. Its crazy.
I don't know if that stats even exists for all of them. For the metro, subway and JR East - sure. For a random line somewhere on the border of Kanto region - I doubt it.
Yeah, generally, yes. But in Japan, no.
Its no relationship with "Where" is the line.
Its only the matter of "Who" handles the line.
The space without a railroad in the middle is the Imperial Palace.
I thought this video would have never came out. Thanks for doing something I wanted to see in a long time!
I can even see where the Imperial Palace is,everything goes around it
Even subway tunnels aren't allowed!
やっぱ首都圏の鉄道は複雑すぎて頭こんがらがりそう笑
JR出てきたときの一軍感すげえwww
のんびりとしたBGMが続き私鉄やマイナー路線次々と紹介して・・芝山鉄道の次に紹介されるJR Eastの瞬間 これを忘れてはいけないとばかりBGMが変わって壮大な路線網を敷くJR東日本が紹介される所がいいですねｗ 東京ほど鉄道網が混みあっている都市は世界中見てもないでしょうね
7:15 ディズニーリゾートラインかわいい笑
Also note that many lines of different companies share the same trains/stations/rolling stock. For example an Odakyu Line train might run strait into the Chiyoda Subway Line, and the Fukutoshin Metro line directly connects to the Tokyu Toyoko Line, which directly connects into the Minato Mirai Line, essentially 3-4 different train companies, operatating seemlessly.
Yes, this is really surprising for me, even living in Japan more than 20 years. I just can't understand why the complicated railroad newtork operates so accurate and safe.
@@japanezeboyOK its because the companies have their best interests in working together in providing a safe and reliable journey for passengers while also expanding their business even if they hate each other such as in the case in London, England where the original railway companies had a battle which was the Metropolitan Railway vs. the District Railway where they worked together on expanding their companies while also being competitors and working together because if they did not work together then they would end up building competing lines that would be loss makers for all parties involved.
And now I've explained Capitalism 101...
To say that in Montreal, we only have 2 rail based transit operators and the existing company decided to pick a fight with the newcomer. The amount of compagnies that work seamlessly in Tokyo is mindboggling.
Yea man thats the problem with transit in the Americas. Every train, bus, even stores and goods can be purchased with an IC card in Japan. In the US, every city has their own transit card that ONLY works for transit
Yeah i still remember that i went to ikebukuro by riding a train from minato mirai station to ikebukuro station it takes 1 hour
Tokyo is such a fascinating city for a transport fanatic
5:03 I love how it transitions from the shortest railway line, to the gigantic JR east network
but showing it all at once misses the One Ring that rules them all, the Yamanote Line.
I was expecting to see the whole JR East network😭😭 Very disappointed😂
@@sntmse JR = Japan Railway
@@LaxMarch2022 lol that’s too big! Only JR East is enough! That’s not fair for the companies only in Kanto region haha
@@sntmse If you display all the networks of JR East, you will be able to see Aomori, which is more than 700km away from Tokyo.
I can't speak English, so please forgive me for using a translation site.
丁寧な編集で良いですね
You have to redo after a few year later.
Utsunomiya Light Rail and Sotetsu Shin-Yokohama Line are under construction now.
I hope you all know that this still doesn't include high speed rail (Shinkansen).
The Shinkansen network is very big too.
Taking the Shinkansen from Shin-Yokohama to Tokyo because you can expense it is just a fun chad move
これを開業順に編集したら昇天しそう🥺
日本の都心の鉄道網は十分すぎるぐらいに整備されてます。車内も綺麗で、移動も快適です。
天気のいい日（晴れの日）は小田急線のロマンスカーから見れる富士山がおすすめです。冬に綺麗に見れると思います。
I just love how the 4.1km stretch of the Minatomirai Line carries more people in a day (as of 2015) as my city’s ENTIRE daily ridership as of 2018/19
That being said Tokyo’s population is somewhat comparable to all of Canada and I’m in just one city in Canada.
I mean Minatomirai Line does through service with Tokyu Toyoko Line and Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, even further to Tobu Tojo Line.
@internet person Ottawa maybe
@@sunglassdubsteps5268 also Seibu Ikebukuro Line
@@kelv3157 Don't forget Seibu Yurakucho Line
@@sunglassdubsteps5268 yes, that’s the line that connects Seibu Ikebukuro to the Fukutoshin/Yurakucho subway lines but I don’t really count it to be a major line
The guy who designed Tokyo railway maps in google maps needs a raise for real
4:58 The anime protagonist fighting the villain alone
5:07 They discover the power of friendship
impressive. appreciate your hard work;)
Choshi Railroad is registered with the Imperial Data Bank as a rice cracker business because its profits from rice crackers are larger than its profits from the railroad.
これだけの密度の鉄道・軌道網が整備されていながら都心では150%を超える混雑なわけで、東京の人口密度は群を抜いているなあと
Fascinating, how many small train businesses with very few lines exist.
meanwhile my city has been trying to open a single new light rail line for 12 years
My city has been building new metro station for 4 years
My city has been building an 3.45 km rail tunnel under the CBD after it was first proposed 70 years ago and is still taking them 11 years with 2 billion dollars budget overruns and numerous delays
My city doesn't even have a bus system....
他にも日本国内には
東海道新幹線(東京〜新大阪)
山陽新幹線(新大阪〜博多)
九州新幹線(博多〜鹿児島中央)
東北新幹線(東京〜新青森)
北海道新幹線(新青森〜新函館北斗)
上越新幹線(東京〜新潟)
北陸新幹線(東京〜金沢)
山形新幹線(東京〜新庄)
秋田新幹線(東京〜秋田)
9つの新幹線があります
めっちゃ詳しくて草
nice video!!!
この方……いよいよ手を出してしまったか
You have done a very hard work
Thank you very much from Japan!
東京の話ではないけど沖縄県以外は鉄道で移動できるのもいいよね
四国に行くことも九州に行くことも北海道に行くことも出来る
海を渡れる
Now we know why the ridership was over 40 million riders during Summer Olympics in Tokyo Japan
Yes Imagine if there was international tourists. Blow mind.
Fantastic job, well done!
Amazing video, tons of research put into this amazingly made video. The Greater Tokyo Area rail network is massive, and I don’t think anything can compete with the rail network.
I wonder why you censored some of the numbers though? Is it because UA-cam dislikes certain numbers?
Typos. See pinned comment.
They don’t like Asian
For people who found that some common words appear in the names of railways:
-den: abbreviation of "den-tetsu", itself abbreviation of "denki-tetsudo" (electric railway)
-kyu: abbreviation of "kyuko" (express)
やっぱ改めて首都圏の路線図見てみると密だな〜てゆうのが分かる
鉄道自体が観光資源になって、世界中から鉄道マニアを集めても不思議ではない
2:41 Error for Keisei, Keisei does not own the line that goes to Haneda. It runs through the Toei Asakusa and Keikyu Main/Airport Lines.
Yes Keisei goes to Narita.
In a documentary recently on television, one of the people primarily responsible for public transport in Tokyo said that there are plans to introduce a network and zones, as already existed in many cities around the world. Otherwise this megacity cannot expand further in public transport.
Thank you so much, being waiting for it 💛💛💛
流鉄やユーカリが丘線まで載ってるのは驚いた。かなり丁寧に調べられてる
One of the reasons why I love Tokyo so much
If you are visiting Tokyo, a Metro day ticket, and one of the colour-coded rail maps they have, is all you really need for the inner city area. The same goes for the city of Osaka.
These are the best underground systems in the world.
A JR pass is even better !
@@CPTE5069 If you are visiting Tokyo, a JR pass will only be useful for the Yamanote line, and a couple of other lines. It can't be used for the Tokyo Metro or the Toei Line underground systems.
It's a good video. Thank you for taking up a lot of Japan.
okay so I live in Tokyo and I haven't heard of so many of these lines especially out in ibaraki and chiba...
44 million people ride the train every day... Probably the majority of those are round-trip... so it's safe to say that the equivalent to at least the entire population of Australia or Texas uses this system every single day... if not Canada or California...
Shout out from Keio!! This was such a cool video
Yes indeed well researched must of taken sometime. I believe the Shinjuku Keio Line station opened in 1912.
Enoden isn't a tram ,but a light train....very specific in japan,with for example, Keihan in Osaka Aera.
Keisei don't go at Haneda Airport,she use the Keikyu tracks and Asakusa Line (interconnexion)
Wow... So many rail companies in the Tokyo...😲
Great video! Excellent work! However, it seems like cable cars (such as the Ooyama Kanko Railway and Mitake Tizan Railway) are missing.
London: I have the craziest train network!
NYC: Hold me beer.
Tokyo: Allow me to introduce ourselves.
Your videos are so high quality! They deserve more attention.
Thank you!
Hands down the best rail based transport system.
Yes the train station has deep roots in the Japanese community normally the focal point of towns and cities. Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, and Shibuya were virtually uninhabited until the railway arrived in 1885.
@@JapaneseHistory wow you are here too love your videos man.
@@ASADALI-wp3wv Hey Asad Ali. Yeah Metro Liner produces some great content. Thanks for watching, history of Osaka Station co.ing soon.. 😀
5:07 they rlly said let’s just make sure everyone is a part of tokyo
He included the lines that are commonly used for commuting to inner Tokyo, which is why they’re part of the Greater Tokyo network.
That said, I commend the creator of this vid for being specific about what "Tokyo" is being discussed.
Not enough to just cover the 23 special wards IMO
@@jmstransit Agreed. Especially since the video is about the Tokyo rail system. Although, I will say that some of those lines in Saitama, Chiba and Gifu look a little far out to me.
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618 I think including Saitama and Chiba is fine since they’re right beside Tokyo
@@leafbottle9420 I don't either, for the most part. I know plenty of people who commute from Oomiya or Chiba or even Utsunomiya. However, I thought that perhaps that, for instance, the Kinugawa line probably didn't need to be included but maybe people commute from there to Tokyo as well. I'm not sure.
This video is an asset.. the best till date on the massive rail network in Tokyo.
JRの圧倒的強者感
元国鉄は強い…
伊達に140年近くやってないよね
someone: how many rail lines do you want?
Tokyo: Yes.