Organizations
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
The largest JR company serving eastern Japan, operating the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku Shinkansen and the capital region's commuter network.
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Railways
Lines, stations and services of national, intercity and high-speed railways.
Places
Bremen Hauptbahnhof
With its 1885–1889 station building, Bremen Hauptbahnhof is a major railway hub in north-west Germany with 9 platform tracks. The source reports around 147,000 travellers and visitors daily.
Places
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1922, Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof is a terminus with 16 tracks and around 300,000 travellers daily; it is being rebuilt into an underground through station as part of the Stuttgart 21 project.
Places
Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof
Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof (first opened 1844, today's building 1906) has 22 platform tracks, making it Europe's most track-rich through station, with around 200,000 travellers daily and a hub of ICE, U-Bahn and S-Bahn traffic.
Places
Munich Hauptbahnhof
First put into operation in 1839/1849, Munich Hauptbahnhof is one of Germany's most important hub stations with 32 surface tracks, two S-Bahn tunnel tracks and two U-Bahn stations, handling around 400,000 travellers daily.
Places
Munich Airport station
Munich Airport station went into operation on 7 March 1992 and, as a tunnel station beneath the terminal, is the terminus of S-Bahn lines S1 and S8; a long-distance station has not yet been realised.
Places
Marienplatz station
Completed in 1971, Marienplatz station crosses the S-Bahn trunk line with lines U3/U6 beneath Marienplatz and, with peak transfers of around 24,400, is one of the most important nodes in the MVV network.
Places
Cologne Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1859, Cologne Hauptbahnhof lies right next to the cathedral, has 11 tracks and, with around 350,000 travellers daily, is one of Germany's busiest stations.
Places
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1915, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof is Europe's largest terminus station by area at 83,640 m², combining 23 platform tracks with the S-Bahn City Tunnel beneath the city centre.
Places
Cologne/Bonn Airport station
Opened on 12 June 2004, Cologne/Bonn Airport station is a 420 m long tunnel station with four tracks, 18 m underground, where ICE, S-Bahn and regional trains serve Cologne/Bonn Airport.
Places
Jungfernstieg station
Jungfernstieg station, whose first platform opened in 1931 with the “KellJung” line, is a three-level tunnel station beneath the Binnenalster with U1, U2, U4 and the City S-Bahn lines S1–S3.
Places
Hanover Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1843 (today's building 1879), Hanover Hauptbahnhof is a central crossing station with 12 platform tracks, around 280,000 travellers daily and 750 trains per day, and the hub of the Hanover S-Bahn.
Places
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1906, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is Germany's busiest long-distance station with around 550,000 travellers per day (2018) and the second-largest in Europe after Paris Gare du Nord.
Places
Hamburg Airport station
Opened on 11 December 2008 with the 2.6 km long airport S-Bahn line, Hamburg Airport station is a two-track terminus of line S1 of the Hamburg S-Bahn.
Places
Frankfurt Airport regional station
Opened on 14 March 1972, the Frankfurt Airport regional station is Germany's second airport station, with three tracks beneath Terminal 1 and over 40,000 people boarding, alighting or transferring daily (2017).
Places
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1888, Frankfurt's Hauptbahnhof is one of Europe's largest terminus stations with 25 surface tracks and, with around 460,000 travellers daily, Germany's second-busiest long-distance station.
Places
Frankfurt Airport long-distance station
Opened on 30 May 1999, the Frankfurt Airport long-distance station is Germany's largest airport station with around 23,000 travellers daily and four tracks at two directional platforms beneath the Squaire building.
Places
Düsseldorf Airport station
Opened on 26 May 2000, Düsseldorf Airport station lies on the Cologne–Duisburg line and is one of the city's two long-distance stations, connected to the terminals by the automatic SkyTrain people mover.
Places
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 1891, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is a through station with 16 platform tracks and around 270,000 travellers daily (2017), and one of the state capital's two long-distance stations.
Places
Berlin Brandenburg Airport station
Berlin Brandenburg Airport station lies as a tunnel station directly beneath the BER terminal, went into operation on 31 October 2020 and offers six tracks for long-distance, regional and S-Bahn traffic.
Places
Dresden Hauptbahnhof
Completed in 1898, Dresden Hauptbahnhof is a combined through and terminus station on a viaduct with 16 tracks and around 64,500 travellers daily; the central hall was renovated by Norman Foster in 2006.
Places
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Opened in 2006 as Europe's largest crossing station, Berlin Hauptbahnhof is Berlin's central railway hub with 14 platform tracks on two levels and around 329,000 travellers and visitors per day (2019).
Places
Alexanderplatz station
Opened in 1882, Alexanderplatz station links regional and S-Bahn traffic on the Stadtbahn with Berlin's largest U-Bahn station, where lines U2, U5 and U8 cross.
Organizations
DB Fernverkehr AG
The DB Fernverkehr AG, founded in 1999, is the subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG for long-distance rail passenger transport with ICE, IC and EC/ECE.
Organizations
West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
The JR company serving Kansai, Chugoku and the Hokuriku region, operating the Sanyo Shinkansen and the Tsuruga section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen.
Organizations
Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu)
The JR company serving Kyushu, operating the Kyushu and Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen, with active station-building and real estate businesses.
Organizations
Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku)
The JR company serving Shikoku, linked to Honshu via the Seto-Ohashi Line.
Organizations
Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido)
The JR passenger railway company serving Hokkaido, operating the Hokkaido Shinkansen and headquartered in Sapporo.
Organizations
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central)
The JR company operating the Tokaido Shinkansen and the Chubu region's conventional lines, with the group's highest profitability.
Concepts
法国区域列车（TER）
TER是SNCF Voyageurs的区域列车网络，自1997年铁路权力下放起由各大区与SNCF签约组织运营，是欧洲规模最大的区域铁路网。
Concepts
法国高铁TGV INOUI
TGV INOUI是SNCF Voyageurs的高速列车品牌，1981年随东南高速线开通，最高时速320公里，高速铁路网约2800公里。
Concepts
法兰西岛通勤铁路（Transilien）
Transilien是SNCF Voyageurs的法兰西岛郊区列车品牌，共8条线路（H、J、K、L、N、P、R、U），日均客流约100万人次。
Concepts
OUIGO (France's low-cost high-speed train)
OUIGO is a low-cost high-speed train brand operated by SNCF Voyageurs since 2013, divided into two products: OUIGO Grande Vitesse and OUIGO Vitesse Classique.
Concepts
法兰西岛区域快铁（RER）
法兰西岛区域快铁（RER）由5条贯穿巴黎的快线（A至E）组成，由RATP与SNCF共同运营。
Concepts
Yamagata Shinkansen
A Mini-Shinkansen linking Fukushima and Shinjo; Tokyo-Shinjo in about four hours.
Concepts
Tokaido Shinkansen
The world's first high-speed railway, linking Tokyo and Shin-Osaka in 2.5 hours; over 6.5 billion passengers carried since 1964.
Concepts
Sanyo Shinkansen
Linking Shin-Osaka and Hakata, through-running with the Tokaido Shinkansen at up to 300 km/h.
Concepts
Tohoku Shinkansen
Japan's longest Shinkansen, linking Tokyo and Shin-Aomori over 674.9 km at up to 320 km/h.
Concepts
Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen
Linking Takeo-Onsen and Nagasaki since 2022, connecting with Hakata via the Nagasaki Main Line.
Concepts
Kyushu Shinkansen
Linking Hakata and Kagoshima-Chuo; completed in 2011, Tokyo-Kagoshima takes about seven hours.
Concepts
Concepts
Hokuriku Shinkansen
Linking Tokyo and Tsuruga; the 2024 Kanazawa-Tsuruga extension brought it into Fukui Prefecture.
Concepts
Hokkaido Shinkansen
Linking Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto through the Seikan Tunnel since 2016; the Sapporo extension is under construction.
Concepts
Akita Shinkansen
A Mini-Shinkansen linking Morioka and Akita; Tokyo-Akita in about 3 hours 50 minutes.
Concepts
Yamanote Line
JR East's loop line around central Tokyo, carrying about 1.4 million passengers a day.
Concepts
Osaka Loop Line
JR West's loop line around Osaka, the backbone of mass transit in the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe area.
Concepts
Concepts
French Intercity Train (Intercités)
Intercités is a long-distance conventional train brand under SNCF Voyageurs, excluding high-speed trains, and includes night trains.
Concepts
Administrative divisions and railways of Japan
Gateway to knowledge on Japan's 47 prefectures and its Shinkansen and JR lines.
Concepts
ICE 50 (Dresden – Wiesbaden)
ICE line 50 is the only east–west ICE line in central Germany and runs two-hourly from Dresden via Leipzig, Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main to Wiesbaden.