Links to Club
and individuals' pages Links to Club
and individuals' pages
The Japanese Railway Society is an international
society which caters for those with interest in Japanese
railways. No need to explain that I am a member of this society.
Living in or nearby Washington D.C.? Then the Japan
Rail Modelers may be a club that suits you.
Trainwww
from Japan, not actually
a club, but loaded with superb pictures on Japanese railways.
There is also a Japanese railway mailing list in English. You can
subscribe via these pages. Although most pages are in Japanese I
can recommend a visit to these pages!
The JAM is an organisation that promotes
railway modelling in Japan. They organise the annual JAM
convention.
The JMRA caters for the model railway
manufacturers' interest. Links to many small manufacturers.
Japanese language
Byun
Byun Shinkansen - All about the Japanese
High-speed trains. Recommended!
Naraba
is a good source for new releases by the Japanese manuafacturers,
Japanese only, IE 5.x with multi-language support recommended!
English-language pages now under construction. You can put your
wishes towards the manufacturers! Unfortunately this site got
rather quiet recently and is now not regularly updated.
RP Network from Japan, lots of
pictures of Japanese trains, Japanese language only
The Nagoya Model railway club
have their own website. This site gives a good impression of how
the Japanese are dealing with the space problem.
Doug Coster from Australia is one of the few
outside Japan who have built a Japanese outline layout.
Tabuchi Yoji is one of Japan's finest
railway modelers, look here to see
what is possible in limited space.
Lots
of railway pictures can be found at "K-Waka", an amateur photographer, specialised in railway
photos. Pages are in Japanese only.
Ichiban is one of
the few Japanese sites with texts in English. The photography is
also very nice.Highly recommended! There is now a screensaver to
download! No need to say that it shows trains on your screen.
Mr. Hamada has a
very nice photo and video page. Not only railway photgraphs and
some downloadable video clips, but also nature, aircraft and the
rebuilding of Mr. Hamada's home in Kumamoto, Japan. Recommended!
There is also a nice page in French, set up by
a French enthousiast. Nice railway sounds to be found over
here. .
Need information about travelling in Japan? Look
here and no further.
A Japanese finescaler is
Morii Katano.
Interested in modern Japanese freight
trains? This container page
shows many different Japanese containers, as used by JR Freight.
Unfortunaly only in Japanese.
Beautiful side-view drawings of many japanese locos, multiple units, passenger and freight cars can be found at Aki44
I Love Switchback
is a page dedicated to the switchback operations in the mountainous
areas of Japan; these have a very nice modelling potential.. Highly
recommended! Still not tired
of watching
Japanese trains? Well, here's a directory with many more Japanese railway
sites.
Huib
Maaskant has built
2 different H0-scale layouts, not Japanese outline, but well
documented. This site is loaded with lots of information of
railway modelling in general and digital command control in
particular. Now there's a report on an 0-scale layout as well.
Modelling 
Layouts 
Modeller's
Corner 
Train
Simulators Various