Lines
While major part of the operation of JR Freight is on the tracks owned and maintained by other JR companies, JR Freight owns the railway lines (as Category-1 railway business) as follows:
| Line | Endpoints | Locale (Prefecture) |
Distance (km) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hokuriku Main Line | Tsuruga Station - Tsuruga-Minato Freight Terminal | Fukui | 2.7 |
| Kagoshima Main Line | Mojikō Station - Sotohama Freight Terminal | Fukuoka | 0.9 |
| Chihaya Yard - Fukuoka Freight Terminal | Fukuoka | 2.2 | |
| Kansai Main Line | Yokkaichi Station - Shiohama Station | Mie | 3.3 |
| Hirano Station - Kudara Freight Terminal | Osaka | 1.4 | |
| Nippō Main Line | Obase-Nishikōdai-mae Station - Kandakō Freight Terminal | Fukuoka | 4.6 |
| Ōu Main Line | Tsuchizaki Station - Akitakō Freight Terminal | Akita | 1.8 |
| Senseki Line | Rikuzen-Yamashita Station - Ishinomakikō Freight Terminal | Miyagi | 1.8 |
| Shin'etsu Main Line | Kami-Nuttari Junction - Nuttari Freight Terminal | Niigata | 1.8 |
| Kami-Nuttari Junction - Higashi-Niigatakō Freight Terminal | Niigata | 3.8 | |
| Shinminato Line | Nōmachi Station - Takaoka Freight Terminal | Toyama | 1.9 |
| Tōhoku Main Line | Tabata Freight Terminal - Kita-Ōji Freight Terminal | Tokyo | 4.0 |
| Tōkaidō Main Line | Sannō Junction - Nagoya-Minato Freight Terminal | Aichi | 6.2 |
| Suita Junction - Osaka Freight Terminal | Osaka | 8.7 | |
| Uetsu Main Line | Sakata Station - Sakatakō Freight Terminal | Yamagata | 2.7 |
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