open-data-jp-railway-stations

List of Japanese railway stations

The list of stations is generated using ekidata data and integrated with information coming from the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation using the query https://api-tokyochallenge.odpt.org/api/v4/odpt:Station

Naming the stations is not consistent across sources, and some manual effort was necessary to link the two datasets, however the result is not complete.

Usage

Just grab the file stations.json it has a list of objects with the structure

{
  "name_kanji": "",
  "name_kana": "",
  "name_romaji": "",
  "alternative_names": [],
  "group_code": "1130207",
  "ekidata_line_ids": [
    "11302",
    "11313",
    "99301"
  ],
  "line_codes": [
    "JR-East.Yamanote",
    "JR-East.ChuoSobuLocal",
    "Toei.Oedo"
  ],
  "stations": [
    {
      "code": "JR-East.Yamanote.Yoyogi",
      "ekidata_id": "1130207",
      "ekidata_group_id": "1130207",
      "name_kanji": "",
      "alternative_names": [],
      "ekidata_line_id": "11302",
      "line_code": "JR-East.Yamanote",
      "short_code": "JY18",
      "prefecture": "13",
      "lat": 35.683061,
      "lon": 139.702042
    },
    {
      "code": "JR-East.ChuoSobuLocal.Yoyogi",
      "ekidata_id": "1131311",
      "ekidata_group_id": "1130207",
      "name_kanji": "",
      "alternative_names": [],
      "ekidata_line_id": "11313",
      "line_code": "JR-East.ChuoSobuLocal",
      "short_code": "JB11",
      "prefecture": "13",
      "lat": 35.683061,
      "lon": 139.702042
    },
    {
      "code": "Toei.Oedo.Yoyogi",
      "ekidata_id": "9930127",
      "ekidata_group_id": "1130207",
      "name_kanji": "",
      "alternative_names": [],
      "ekidata_line_id": "99301",
      "line_code": "Toei.Oedo",
      "short_code": "E-26",
      "prefecture": "13",
      "lat": 35.683218,
      "lon": 139.701666
    }
  ]
}

Note that two keys are used, ekidata_id is the unique ID in the ekidata dataset, code is manually generated and matches the Open Data naming conventions.

The other object is a group station, it represents a set of lines that are accessible from the same station or nearby connected stations. The stations object contains all the individual stations identified by a station and line.

Related links

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