Specified local lines

The specified local lines (特定地方交通線, Tokutei chihōkōtsū sen^?) were the railway lines specified by Japanese National Railways (JNR) under the 1980 JNR Reconstruction Act (国鉄改革法, Kokutetsu kaikaku hō^?) to be closed. All of 83 lines were closed and substituted by buses or transferred to other railway operators between 1983 and 1990.

Article 8 of the JNR Reconstruction Act (officially the Act on Special Measures concerning Reconstruction Promotion of Management of Japanese National Railways, Act No. 111 of 1980) directed JNR to specify unprofitable lines ("specified local lines") that should be replaced by bus operations based on certain criteria set by a Cabinet Order.

JNR selected 83 lines in three phases.

Operators in parentheses succeeded the railway operation of the lines. Lines not followed by parentheses were substituted by buses.

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