Transit Maps: JR West

Submission – Official Map: JR West Kakogawa Line Strip Map, Japan

April 5, 2019

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Submitted by Jason H., who says: Hi! I’m currently living in Japan for a year as an exchange student, and I’ve come across many train maps here (of course), and I actually originally found your website from the JR West system map you posted many years ago. (It has been updated, with a few route changes but also more colors if you want to check it again). Here is a picture I took of a […]

Official Map: Isometric JR West System Map

October 4, 2013

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5 stars, Asia, high speed rail, Honshu, isometric, Japan, JR Group, JR West, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, passenger rail, rail map, shinkansen

I’m not sure if I’ve ever been so completely, madly and totally in love with a transit map as I am with this. A giant, sprawling, isometric representation of much of Japan showing JR Group railway lines. The map is produced by the JR West company, and its operating area is shown in full detail within the green area (apart from the heavily urbanised areas around Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, where – wisely – not all […]