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Encyclopedia > Kyushu Railway Company
JR Kyushu Midori Express Train on Sasebo Line
JR Kyushu Midori Express Train on Sasebo Line

The Kyushu Railway Company (九州旅客鉄道,Kyushu Ryokaku Tetsudo) is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railway. It operates intercity rail services in Kyushu, Japan and the Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait to Pusan in South Korea. Midori Express Train, JR Kyushu, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan I took this photograph and contribute it to the public domain. ... Midori Express Train, JR Kyushu, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan I took this photograph and contribute it to the public domain. ... Approximate areas that the JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku, and JR Kyushu Companies cover. ... Kyushu region, Japan Kyushu (九州) is the third largest island of Japan and most southerly and westerly of the four main islands. ... The Tsushima Strait is the eastern channel of the Korea Strait Tsushima Strait (対馬海峡, also known in Western historical reference works as the Tsu Shima Strait or Tsu-Shima Strait) is that part of the Korea Strait located east and south of the Tsushima Islands. ... Pūsan is also a Vedic Hindu god. ...


Kyushu Railway's headquarters are in Fukuoka. View of downtown Fukuoka as seen from an observation deck in Minami-ku, facing north. ...

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Lines

Shinkansen line

Kyushu Shinkansen map The Kyushu Shinkansen (九州新幹線) is a 249 km high-speed railway line between the Japanese cities of Fukuoka and Kagoshima, on Kyushu Island, running parallel to the existing Kagoshima Main Line. ...

Trunk and Other lines

The Kagoshima Main Line (鹿児島本線) is a major part of the JR Kyushu rail network and runs between Moji-ko, in Kitakyushu, and Kagoshima, at the southern end of Kyushu. ... The Nagasaki Main Line runs from Tosu Station in Saga prefecture to Nagasaki Station in Nagasaki prefecture. ...

Other lines

  • Sasaguri Line
  • Kashii Line
  • Misumi Line
  • Hisatsu Line
  • Ibusuki Makurazaki Line
  • Karatsu Line
  • Chikuhi Line
  • Sasebo Line
  • Omura Line
  • Hitahikosan Line
  • Nichinan Line
  • Miyazaki Kuko Line
  • Kitto Line
  • Goto-ji Line

External links

  • http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/ (Japanese)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Japan Railways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (756 words)
JR Hokkaido or Hokkaido Railway Company (北海道旅客鉄道 or JR北海道)
JR Shikoku or Shikoku Railway Company (四国旅客鉄道 or JR四国)
JR Kyushu or Kyushu Railway Company (九州旅客鉄道 or JR九州)
BIGpedia - Japan Railway - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (158 words)
Japan Railway, more commonly called JR, is a collective term for the privatized descendants of the former Japanese National Railways, formed when JNR was divided into seven parts on April 1, 1987.
JR Tokai or Central Japan Railway Company (東海旅客鉄道 or JR東海)
JR Kamotsu or Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道 or JR貨物)
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