A glance At the railway map of Japan will show that the country is criss-crossed by a network of railroads. Trunk lines run along almost the entire coast line of both Honshu and Kyushu. These and several other main lines running north and south are connected by numerous cross-connecting lines. Today all of the important cities are linked by rail.
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Nobutaka Ike (1955) studied this question.