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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Trams in Kagoshima, Japan 2013 (市電は鹿児島の中です.) - Length: 10:13 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Kagoshima, Japan - Kagoshima City Trams (2019) - Length: 3:56 mins. |
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Please note that the OSM map used as a template for this map corresponds to the situation at the time the map was downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, it may show bridges and highways that were built later.
TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (鹿児島市交通局))
| 3 | 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 専売公社 (Sembai kōsha) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) [Loop route, clockwise] |
| 4 | 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 専売公社 (Sembai kōsha) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) [Loop route, counterclockwise] |
| 7 | 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 専売公社 (Sembai kōsha) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) [Loop route, clockwise] |
| 8 | 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 専売公社 (Sembai kōsha) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) [Loop route, counterclockwise] |
| 11 | 鹿児島駅前 (Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 谷山 (Taniyama) |
| 13 | 鹿児島駅前 (Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) |
| 14 | 鹿児島駅前 (Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 専売公社 (Sembai kōsha) |
| 15 | 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tram lines: 19.3 km.
HISTORY
- Electric tramway: 1 Dec. 1912 - today.
GAUGE
- Electric tramway: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Demery, L.W., Forty, R., De Groote, R. and Higgins, J.W. Electric railways of Japan - Vol.3: Western Japan. Gloucester (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1997.
- Forty, R. & Higgins, J.W. "Japan today - Part 2: Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima", Modern Tramway & Light Rapid Transit, Feb. 1977 (40: 470), p.50-60.
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