Japan Railways Network and Stations from OpenStreetMap

Japan Railways (OpenStreetMap Export) is a geospatial dataset from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). It contains OpenStreetMap features for railway tracks and stations across Japan, with attributes such as name, elevation, and operator type. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-03 and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping railway network density and connectivity based on the 'railway' tag.
• Analyzing station distribution and multilingual naming conventions based on 'name', 'name:en', and 'name:ja' attributes.
• Modeling multi-level transportation infrastructure based on the 'layer' attribute.
• Identifying railway operators and their types based on the 'operator:type' attribute.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual station names (Japanese and English) based on the listed attributes.
• Available in four common geospatial file formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
• Sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is 2026-03-03.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 10:31:23.341178

Geography

Japan