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Japanese railway operator logo collection

Looking at the "Metro Meme" thread (seems dead now) on SkyscraperPage forum, I thought it may be cool to collect logo symbols of Japanese railway operators. (So we have another imitate-Europeans page here!)

External link:
Metro Bits: This famous metro-orientated website contains the page called Variations of the Letter M, a huge collection of metro logos around the world. The above thread used the logo images of this collection, so you can say I pretty much stole am inspired by this cool website.

Notes:
This collection is far from, and not meant to be, complete.
Some operators have more than one logo/symbol. I listed just one for each.
I do not guarantee any accuracy of the data. Some are my tentative drawings.

Legends:
(Conventional railway) Subway Tramway, LRT Monorail, people mover
Private railway (excluding JR) Third sector (half public, half private)

Regions: JRs Hokkaidō Tōhoku Kantō Chūbu Kinki Chūgoku Shikoku Kyūshū Okinawa

JR Companies

JR Hokkaidō JR East JR Central JR West JR Shikoku JR Kyūshū

JR Freight

Hokkaidō, Tōhoku

Abukuma Express Aizu Railway Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway Hakodate City Tram IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway Kōnan Railway

Sanriku Railway Sapporo Municipal Subway Sendai Airport Transit Sendai City Subway Towada Kankō Electric Railway (Tōtetsu) Tsugaru Railway (Tsutetsu)
Sapporo Street Car

Yuri Kōgen Railway Yamagata Railway (Flower Nagai Line)

Kantō

Major and semi-major private railways

Keihin Electric Express Railway (Keikyū) Keiō Electric Railway Keisei Electric Railway Odakyū Electric Railway Sagami Railway (Sōtetsu) Seibu Railway
(Yamaguchi Line)

Shin-Keisei Railway Tōbu Railway Tōkyō Kyūkō Electric Railway (Tōkyū) Tōkyō Metro
(Setagaya Line)

Others

Chiba Urban Monorail Chichibu Railway (same logo as Jōshin Dentetsu) Chōshi Electric Railway Disney Resort Line Enoshima Electric Railway (Enoden) Hakone Tozan Railway

Hokusō Railway Ibaraki Kōtsū (Ibakō) Izu Hakone Railway Jōmō Electric Railway Jōshin Dentetsu (same logo as Chichibu Railway) Kantō Railway (Kantetsu)

Kashima Rinkai Railway Kominato Railway Metropolitan Intercity Railway (Tsukuba Express, TX) Saitama New Urban Transit (New Shuttlle) Saitama Railway Shibayama Railway

Shōnan Monorail Sōbu Nagareyama Electric Railway (Ryūtetsu) Tama Monorail Toei Subway Tōkyō Monorail Tōkyō Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (Rinkai Line)
Toei Streetcar

Tōyō Rapid Railway Watarase Keikoku Railway (Watetsu) Yagan Railway Yamaman (Yūkarigaoka Line) Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Yokohama Municipal Subway
(Kodomo-no-Kuni Line)

Yokohama New Transit (Seaside Line) Yurikamome

Chūbu

Major private railway

Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu)

Others

Aichi Loop Line Aichi Rapid Transit (Linimo) Echizen Railway Enshū Railway (Entetsu) Fuji Kyūkō (Fujikyū) Fukui Railway (Fukutetsu)

Gakunan Railway Hokuetsu Express Hokuriku Railroad (Hokutetsu) Iga Railway Ise Railway Izukyū (Izu Kyūkō)

Kurobe Gorge Railway (Kurotetsu) Manyō Line Matsumoto Electric Railway (Matsuden) Nagano Electric Railway (Nagaden) Nagaragawa Railway Nagoya Municipal Subway

Nagoya Guideway Bus (Yutorīto Line) Nagoya Seaside Rapid Railway (Aonami Line) Noto Railway Ōigawa Railway Sangi Railway Shinano Railway

Shizuoka Railway (Shizutetsu) Tarumi Railway Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tōkai Transport Service (Jōhoku Line)

Toyama Light Rail (Portram)

Toyama Regional Railway
(Toyama City Tram Line)

Toyohashi Railroad (Toyotetsu) Ueda Electric Railway Yōrō Railway
(Atsumi Line)

Kinki

Major and semi-major private railways

Hankyū Railway Hanshin Electric Railway Keihan Electric Railway Kinki Nippon Railway (Kintetsu) Kita-Ōsaka Kyūkō Railway (Kitakyū) Kōbe Electric Railway (Shintetsu)

Kōbe Rapid Railway Nankai Electric Railway Sanyō Electric Railway Semboku Rapid Railway

Others

Chizu Express Eizan Electric Railway (Eiden) Hankai Tramway Hōjō Railway Hokushin Kyūkō Electric Railway Keifuku Electric Railroad (Randen)

Kishū Railway Kita-Kinki Tango Railway Kōbe Municiapal Subway Kōbe New Transit Kyōto Municiapal Subway Mizuma Railway

Nose Electric Railway (Noseden) Ōmi Railway Ōsaka Municiapal Subway Ōsaka Monorail Sagano Scenic Railway Shigaraki Kōgen Railway
(Nankō Port Town Line)

Wakayama Electric Railroad

Chūgoku, Shikoku

Hiroshima Electric Railway (Hiroden) Hiroshima Rapid Transit (Astram Line) Ichibata Electric Railway Ihara Railway Iyo Railway (Iyotetsu) Mizushima Seaside Railway
(Miyajima Line) (Matsuyama City Tram Line)

Nishikigawa Railway Okayama Electric Tramway Takamatsu Kotohira Electric Railroad (Kotoden) Tosa Electric Railway (Tosaden) Tosa Kuroshio Railway Wakasa Railway

Kyūshū, Okinawa

Major private railway

Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu)

Others

Amagi Railway Chikuhō Electric Railroad (Chikutetsu) Fukuoka City Subway Hisatsu Orange Railway Heisei Chikuhō Railway Kagoshima City Tram

Kitakyūshū Monorail Kumagawa Railway Kumamoto City Tram Matsuura Railway (MR) Minami Aso Railway (MAR) Nagasaki Electric Tramway

Okinawa Urban Monorail (Yui-rail) Shimabara Railway (Shimatetsu)

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