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Trains and Tokyo

 

Tokyo Station around 1924

 

 

History of travel and transportation (from Dentsu Museum): Edo period  Meiji period

 

Tokyo Train Tour – an aficionado’s guide to maps and other information about the rail system of Tokyo.

This site includes a useful brief overview of the history of rail transportation in Tokyo (overview).

 

The Tokyo Ticket Gallery website – another train aficionado’s guide to trains (click on tickets to find photographs of specific stations and historical information about different stations and lines.  Mostly in Japanese.

 

 

JR East map of lines in the Tokyo metropolitan region, in English (an adobe .pdf file)

 

Listen to the trains!   The following are links to sound files at www.Japan-guide.com