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A coloured bar or disc standing for one line.
Also known as: Line colour Japan, Railway line colour coding
Identifies a Japanese railway line by an assigned colour, carried on maps, on platform edges and on the trains themselves.
Identifies one railway line by an assigned colour.
Contexts: Public information
Is carried onto the rolling stock as a body stripe in Japan, which most networks do not do: the colour identifies the line at the platform edge, on the map and on the approaching train, so a passenger can confirm the train before it stops.
Contexts: Public information
A solid bar or disc of one colour, repeated on the route map, along the platform edge and as a stripe along the carriage side.
The station number the colour is drawn around.