Railway Construction Act

unreferenced|date=May 2008The Railway Construction Act (鉄道敷設法 "Tetsudō Fusetsu-hō", Law No. 4 of 1892) was promulgated by the Diet of Japan on June 21, 1892, and designated government support for a network of thirty-three railway lines covering most of Japan, with the exception of Hokkaidō. On April 11, 1922, the Diet amended the law to add an additional network of regional and local routes. Today, these lines form the backbone of the national railway network, JR (although JR has relinquished control of some of the more minor ones).

Lines designated by the Act of 1892

Notable main lines before the Act

The lines in following list don't appear the act, because operated already or soon.
*Tokyo — Gotenba — Nagoya — Gifu — Maibara — Kusatsu — Kyoto — Osaka — Kōbe
*Tokyo — Hachiōji
*Takasaki — Shinonoi — Nagano — Toyono — Naoetsu
*Maibara — Tsuruga
*Ōmiya — Takasaki — Maebashi
*Tokyo — Ōmiya — Shirakawa — Fukushima — Iwanuma — Sendai — Kogota — Kitakami — Morioka — Aomori
*Tokyo — Mito
*Nagoya — Kameyama — Tsuge — Kusatsu
*Osaka — Ōji — Nara
*Ōji — Takada
*Kōbe — Himeji — Okayama — Mihara
*Marugame — Tadotsu — Kotohira
*Moji — Kokura — Hakata — Tosu — Kurume — Ōmuta — Kumamoto
*Tosu — Saga
*Wakamatsu — Iizuka

ee also

*Railway Nationalization Act
*History of rail transport in Japan