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Eki · 駅 150 years of Japan, drawn in stations. On a June morning in 1872, Japan’s entire railway was a single line between Shimbashi and Yokohama. A century and a half later the map carries more than nine thousand stations. Press play and watch the country fill in — one opening at a time. 9,321 Stations mapped 154 Years 1872 First line How to read it One dot, one station Every dot is a railway station, placed where it stands and lit at the year it opened. Drag the slider or press play to move through time; the counter and the chart below the map keep pace. The tall bars are the building booms — and the shape of Japan emerges not from a coastline but from the stations themselves. The boom A country laid down in forty years The first decades are sparse: a spine up the Pacific coast, a few lines around Osaka. Then, between roughly 1900 and 1930, the map erupts. Private railways race the state to every valley and suburb, and Tokyo and Osaka thicken into the dense knots you can still see today. By the time the boom cools, the skeleton of modern Japan is already on the ground. The first line 1872 Shimbashi to Yokohama — the whole network begins as 29 km of track Busiest year 1929 272 stations opened in a single year On the map today 9,321 stations with a recorded opening date, 1872 to the present Source & method Stations, coordinates and opening dates come from Wikidata (CC0): every item that is a railway station in Japan with coordinates and a date of official opening, taking the earliest opening year per station. A station blooms at its opening year and is never removed, so closed and relocated stations remain on the map. Of the source set, 96 stations were left off for a missing or unusable opening date, or coordinates outside Japan. The coastline is a simplified Natural Earth outline. Download the data (CSV, 9,321 stations) . Words for the rails You just watched 150 years of stations appear. These are the words you’d use to ride them today — from the 駅 you start at to the 乗り換え in the middle. 駅 えき station 電車 でんしゃ train 路線 ろせん line / route 乗り換え のりかえ transfer 切符 きっぷ ticket 新幹線 しんかんせん bullet train 開業 かいぎょう opening (of a line) Learn the vocabulary of the rails → You just watched Japan’s rail map grow for 150 years — and the kanji riding on it are closer than they look: 駅 えき station 電車 でんしゃ train 路線 ろせん line 新幹線 しんかんせん bullet train JIVX turns a fascination like this into real Japanese: short daily sessions of whole sentences, graded the way a teacher would — not flashcards. Free to start, at your own level. Start practising free →