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Seen in November 2014, December 2014, and February 2015 while I was living in Japan. Nagoya City Transportation Bureau semi-streamlined tram 1401 (Nippon Sharyō, 1936) was the first of seventy-five Type 1400 cars introduced during the 1930s modernization program. It was converted from two-man to one-man operation before the tramway closed in 1974, and was displayed as a one-man car for Imaike (subway station since 1960) at the Nagoya City Science Museum in Shirakawa Park.

Nagoya Municipal Subway Series N1000 set 18 was parked at Fujigaoka Station, the eastern end of the Higashiyama Line, when I boarded the Linimo maglev at Fujigaoka during my December 2024 visit to Japan. Series N1000 trains (cars numbered N11xx-N16xx) entered service in 2008 and are only used on the Higashiyama Line, whose "line color" has been yellow since its opening in 1957 as the first Nagoya subway line.

Both electric trains were seen at Ōmiya Station (Saitama City) in January 2025. White/green train: East Japan Railway Company (JR East) Series E257 set OM-93 as “Kusatsu Shima” or “Akagi” limited express (for Tokyo?). Gold/black train: Tōbu Railway Series 100 Spacia (set 103 or 106?) limited express for Nikkō.

Nagoya Municipal Subway N1018 was parked at Fujigaoka Station, the eastern end of the Higashiyama Line, when I boarded the Linimo maglev at Fujigaoka during my December 2024 visit to Japan. Series N1000 trains (cars numbered N11xx-N16xx) entered service in 2008 and are only used on the Higashiyama Line, whose "line color" has been yellow since its opening in 1957 as the first Nagoya subway line.

The Yokohama City Transportation Bureau’s last new trams were six streamlined Type 1600 cars built at the bureau’s own Takigashira Depot in 1957. They operated until 1970, two years before the whole tramway closed in a period where several other Japanese cities like Nagoya, Kobe, and Kyoto also closed their tramways. Only car 1601 is preserved, and was displayed as a Route 9 tram for Honmoku-1-chōme when I visited the Yokohama Tram Museum in December 2024.

The Yokohama City Transportation Bureau’s last new trams were six streamlined Type 1600 cars built at the bureau’s own Takigashira Depot in 1957. They operated until 1970, two years before the whole tramway closed in a period where several other Japanese cities like Nagoya, Kobe, and Kyoto also closed their tramways. Only car 1601 is preserved, and was displayed as a Route 9 tram for Honmoku-1-chōme when I visited the Yokohama Tram Museum in December 2024.

21 years ago on April 1, 2005, Nagoya-based Meitetsu closed all its remaining tramways in Gifu Prefecture including the Gifu City Lines and the interurban Minomachi Line. I saw two of the oldest surviving cars in December 2024 while visiting Japan: Meitetsu ex Mino Electric Tramway 512 (Nippon Sharyō, 1926) at the Mino Station museum in Mino City, and sister 513 (same builder and year) in front of the JR station in Gifu City. These two cars continued running for 80 years until their lines closed, and were restored to their original livery shortly before retirement.

The Yokohama City Transportation Bureau closed its tramways 54 years ago on March 31, 1972, making Yokohama one of several Japanese cities to lose its tramways around that time. Cars 10, 523, 1007, 1104, 1311, 1510, and 1601 are displayed together at the Yokohama Tram Museum. Here are some of my pictures from my second visit to the museum in Dec 2024.