Specified local lines


The specified local lines were the railway lines specified by Japanese National Railways under the 1980 JNR Reconstruction Act to be closed. All of 83 lines were closed and substituted by buses or transferred to other railway operators between 1983 and 1990.

Selection

Article 8 of the JNR Reconstruction Act directed JNR to specify unprofitable lines that should be replaced by bus operations based on certain criteria set by a Cabinet Order.
JNR selected 83 lines in three phases.

List of lines

Operators in parentheses succeeded the railway operation of the lines. Lines not followed by parentheses were substituted by buses.

First phase