Shimabara Railway

Shimabara Railway
Native name
島原鉄道
Shimabara Tetsudō
Company typeThird-sector
IndustryTransportation
Founded5 May 1908 (5 May 1908)
HeadquartersBentenmachi, Shimabara, Nagasaki
WebsiteOfficial website

Shimabara Railway (島原鉄道, Shimabara Tetsudō), known as Shimatetsu (島鉄) for short, is a third-sector railway company in Nagasaki, Japan.

Shimabara Railway also operates buses, taxis and passenger ferries; as well as other non-transport ventures.

Nagasaki Prefecture and Cities in Shimabara area came to hold stocks in the company after an eruption disaster of Unzen Fugen-dake in an effort to increase capital.

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