List of defunct railway companies in Japan

List of defunct railway companies in Japan lists defunct Japanese railway operators.

The list includes all types of railways, such as handcars, horsecars, trams, light railways, heavy rails, freight rails, industrial railways, monorails, new transit systems, or funiculars.

Some companies are still active in other businesses, such as bus operation.

"Former names" include those of preceding operators not directly related to their successors.

The list omits these types of operators:

Kamitokoro Station, Hokkaidō Chihoku Kōgen Railway Line, 2006.
Yūbari Railway Line, presumably in the 1970s.
Ōyūbari Coal Mine Industrial Railway Line, 1912.
Abandoned bridge of Ōyūbari Forest Railway .
" Horse Face Train " of Hanamaki Electric Railway , preserved at a park.
Kurihara Den'en Railway Line, 2006.
Railbus of Nanbu Jūkan Railway Line, at the revival event, 2006.
Ruins of Dream Land Monorail , Dream Kankō.
Ayukawa Station, Hitachi Dentetsu Line, 2004.
Kashima Railway Line , 2007.
Former Kita-Karuizawa Station of Kusakaru Electric Railway .
Toyota IMTS guided bus system was operated only at Expo 2005 , but still was considered as a railway.
Kamioka Railway Line, 2002.
Farewell run of Niigata Kōtsū train, 1999.
Peachliner (Tōkadai New Transit) was the first regular new transit system to be discontinued.
Ruins of Atagoyama Railway Line.
Ruins of Daishōgun Station, Himeji Municipal Monorail .
Farewell run of Nokami Electric Railway Line, 1994.
Type 1 Locomotive of Ikasa Railway , preserved at a museum.
Ōmoto Station, Okayama Rinkō Railway Line, 1984.
Type 2 Locomotive of Nansatsu Railway , preserved at a park.
Takachiho Railway Line crossing Gokase River, 2005.
Daitō Tōgyō sugarcane train, preserved at a park.