Rail Freight

Nayori Kita-asahikawa Freight terminal station Nakashari Takigawa E＆S(Effective ＆ Speedy Container Handling System station Kitami Container handling station Otaruchikkou Furano Kushiro-kamotsu Off-rail-stations Sapporo Onbetsu Higashi-muroran Obihiro-kamotsu Tomakomai-kamotsu

Hakodate-kamotsu Sea of Japan Higashi-aomori Hirosaki Hachinohe-kamotsu Akitakou Odate Akita-kamotsu Morioka Rokuhara Yokote Mizusawa Sakatakou Furukawa Aizu-wakamatsu Ishinomakikou Yamagata Sendai Sendaikou Niigata Iwanuma Minami-nagaoka Koriyama North Pacific Ocean Onahama Takaoka-kamotsu Utsunomiya Hitachi Kanazawa Toyama- kamotsu Mito Shiojiri Tsuchiura Yonago Gifu Tajimi Tokyo metropolitan area Higasi-matsue Tokyo Higashi- Kasugai Kumagaya fukuyama Kobe Shizuoka-kamotsu Hiroshima Nagoya Osaka Shimonoseki Shin-nanyo Nisho-hamamatsu Fukuoka Wakayama Koshigaya Kitakyushu Niihama Niiza Kita-oji Tosu Kochi Tokushima Hachioji Kumamoto Takamatsu Matsuyama Tokyo Yatsushiro Nobeoka Kajigaya Chiba-kamotsu Yokohama-hazawa Kawasaki-kamotsu Kagoshima Honmoku-futo Sagami-kamotsu Kansai area Kyoto-kamotsu Himeji-kamotsu Suita Kobe Osaka Kudara Ajikawaguchi

As of July 2014

It has over 140 freight terminals in major cities, and these freight trains run punctually as well as the passenger trains in Japan.

< Modal Shift > The safe and reliable freight transport is energy-efficient as well as environmentally-friendly, and enables mass transport. The greenhouse gas CO2 emission of railway transportation is only one-eighth of transportation made by trucks. Modal shift to rails reduces 87% of CO2 emissions.

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