Japan Railways

Tagging Standards

General Tags

Node 👁 node
, way 👁 way
, area 👁 area
or relation 👁 relation
for railway names and general tagging.

Railway Lines

Way 👁 way
for represent railway lines.

Railway Stations

Station Node

Node 👁 node
for indicating position of railway station.

• For multiple lines sharing a station, try to minimise the number of railway station nodes by using a common node for all lines except lines that are physically located away from node.
• Node shall be positioned at the centroid of the station. This position may not be identical to the train station building as it should represent the center of the station premise inclusive of train platform.
• Used to capture the lines available at the station via route relations. This can be used to render transfer stations connected to different lines.
• Shall be used as member stop in legacy public transport route relations (public_transport:version=1).
• Shall be used as member station in new public transport route relations (public_transport:version=2) as an extension to current proposal.

Stop Position

Node 👁 node
for stop position on 👁 way
railway lines.

• Shall be used as member stop in new public transport route relations (public_transport:version=2).

Buildings

Area 👁 area
for railway station buildings.

• Shall refer to the physical building(s) being a train station or roof (typically used for platforms).

Railway Route Relation

General & Train-Specific Route

Relation 👁 relation
for railway general route information.

• General route information such as general Shinkansen routes (i.e. Tohoku, Tokaido, Sanyo, Kyushu, Jonetsu and Hokuriku).
• General route information such as general railway lines containing all railway tracks without stops.

Relation 👁 relation
for railway train-specific route information with stop information.

• Refers to routes ply by trains serving one or more railway lines.
• Refers to routes ply by Shinkansen trains (i.e. Yamabiko train, Hayate train, Sakura train, Toki train, e.t.c.).
• Refers to routes ply by Limited Express trains or other named trains where they may ply the same routes with reduced stops.

Relation tags

Relation members

Route Variants

Relation 👁 relation
for railway route variants.

• Used to capture route variants such as rail branches.
• Used to capture route variants such as local service, limited express and other special services.
• Used to capture routes in opposite directions.

Relation tags

Relation members

Rail Transport Maps

• See Public Transport#Maps for a list of transport maps. Do note that not all transport maps shows rail routes, and tags used to render the rail routes differs.

Route State

References

• See Japan tagging for general tagging.
• See Public transport and Proposed features/Public Transport for public transport tagging.
• See Relation:route and Relation:route_master for public transport route relation.

Railways

Chubu Region

The Kanto Region railway lines are listed in the following table. It may also include lines in the Greater Tokyo region.

Kanto Region

The Kanto Region railway lines are listed in the following table.

The Kanto Region railway lines are through-service across multiple different rail lines.

The following table lists railways that are based on monorail, trams and people-mover.

Tohoku Region

Railways (Special Services)

Kanto Region

Shinkansen

Subways

• See also Kyoto Municipal Subway for subways in Kyoto.
• See also Osaka Metro for subways in Osaka.
• See also Tokyo Metro and Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation (also known as Toei) for subways in Tokyo.