Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in metropolitan areas.
Six Japan Railways Group (JR) companies, state owned until 1987, provide passenger service to most parts of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu; the seventh JR company carries freight. Many private rail companies rank among the top corporations in the country. Regional governments, and companies funded jointly by regional governments and private companies, also provide rail service.
There are 27,268 km of rail crisscrossing the country. JR (a group of companies formed after privatization of JNR) controlled 20,135 km of these lines as of March 31, 1996, with the remaining 7,133 km in the hands of private enterprise local railway companies. Japan's railways carried 22.24 billion passengers (395.9 billion passenger-kilometres) in fiscal 2006. In comparison, Germany has over 40,000 km of railways, but carries only 2.2 billion passengers per year.
Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo and Yokohama have subway systems. However, unlike Europe, the vast majority of passenger traffic is on suburban commuter trains that criss-cross metropolitan areas. In addition, many cities have streetcar and monorail networks.
Railway modelling (UK, Australia, Ireland and Canada) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale. The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, tracks, signalling, and roads, buildings, vehicles, model figures, lights, and features such as streams, hills and canyons.
N-Gauge Unten Kibun Game Gatan Goton is a Japanese train simulation game in the style of Taito's Densha de Go! with the important difference that N-Gauge is a model train simulator simulation game.
The game features different game modes:
- Normal mode: The main mode of the game, at the beginning only one route is avaliable, and there are some routes that the player have to reach in time.
- Time Attack mode: Drive against time
The game features also a museum with a description of all the trains that are in the game and the routes with images.
Manufacturer's description:
Gatangoton, the world's N Scale of 1 to 150 real feel like riding a train or locomotive cab of a variety of games that can run around heartily. Driving stage, the world's largest diorama. East tube real R, Keihin Tohoku, Shinetsu main, 4 routes and Narita line, from the big cities the countryside, with mountains and valleys pass, with bridge, such as the Japanese landscape over the Usui Pass and Mania THERE is such a beautiful and prosperous world as it is condensed. As the game is a real railroad rules and modes that are required to accurately run the train, compete for time and mode of arrival to the destination from the starting point, but a whole bunch Forest!
Features:
- First person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Trains theme.
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