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Japan divided up the former
national railroad, JNR, into separate private railroads in the 1980's.
All the JR lines are narrow gauge. Most of the network is electrified,
particularly the passenger routes. But many miles of non-electrified territories
still exist. The JR Lines are the trains that the average
Japanese person rides everyday. Many of the routes act as feeders or
even parallel the much faster Shinkansen Lines.