page_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Asia
section_title: Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Asia / Japan
caption_attribution_description: English: A JR East E259 series EMU on a test run 日本語: JR東日本E259系特急型電車(特急｢成田エクスプレス｣用車両)。
context_page_description: Asia has many narrow-gauge railways. The railways of Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines are predominantly 1,067 mm narrow gauge. Those in mainland Southeast Asia, which includes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia, are predominantly metre gauge. The proposed ASEAN Railway would be standard or dual gauge, using metre- and standard-gauge regional railway networks and linking Singapore through Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to China's standard-gauge rail network. In Western Asia, Jordan uses 1,050 mm narrow gauge.
context_section_description: Except for the high-speed Shinkansen lines and JR East's Ou Main and Tazawako Lines, all of Japan Railways Group's network is narrow-gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Some companies, such as Kintetsu, Keisei Electric Railway, Keihin Electric Express Railway, Hankyu Railway, Toei Asakusa Line, Tokyo Metro's Ginza Line and Marunouchi line, use standard gauge.
  Tokyo's Keio Corporation network and the Toei Shinjuku subway line, which have through service, use an unusual 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in) gauge. This gauge is also used on the Tokyo and Hakodate tramways.
  Japan adopted 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) as a standard narrow gauge for small, forestry and industrial lines. Most of these narrow-gauge lines were abandoned, and only four remain in operation: the Kintetsu Utsube Line, Kintetsu Hachioji Line, Sangi Railway and Kurobe Gorge Railway.
caption: JR East express train
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