Japanese trains overview website

[Densha]

This website has a nice visual overview of most (if not all) Japanese trains, including the countless variants some train types have: http://www.uraken.net/rail/alltrain/

[velotrain]

I sent it through Google translate, but sadly the only thing translated was "Picture book of Japanese railroad vehicle".

[Densha]

The website is encoded in Shift JIS, rather than the universal Unicode which is used on more modern websites. I had to select manually select Shift JIS in my browser before it was readable at all. Google Translate doesn't seem to recognize the encoding over here as well, which I didn't check beforehand because my Japanese is sufficient to browse the website. I don't really know how to get it in English.

Edited February 18, 2016 by Densha

[POMU]

Densha, Charles.

  I use the Bing translator which IMHO is the best translator.  Website came through fine in English.

POMU

Edited February 18, 2016 by POMU

[velotrain]

That did work POMU - thanks.

 

Even more amazing - the translation carries down to lower levels !!!

Edited February 19, 2016 by velotrain

[Suica]

Some pages can't be translated even by BING. For example "Commuter trains" and "Limited express diesel cars".

Anyway, that's a really nice page. Thanks for sharing!

[POMU]

That did work POMU - thanks.

 

Even more amazing - the translation carries down to lower levels !!!

Your welcome Charles.

POMU

[POMU]

Some pages can't be translated even by BING. For example "Commuter trains" and "Limited express diesel cars".

Anyway, that's a really nice page. Thanks for sharing!

This is true.  It is a nice page though. 

POMU

Edited February 19, 2016 by POMU

[SuRoNeFu 25-501]

The website is excellent, and is very recommended for those still relatively new to Japanese trains 

[Jcarlton]

That site has been a favorite for years.  Great site.