Here is a list of some small Japanese railway museums that are known about at the end of 2009 (there are others).

• Nagahama Railroad Square
  Shiga on Lake Biwa near Maibara – 1882 station and loco D51-793 and an ED70
• Kuroyashi Line Memorial, Tottori
  Loco C11-75
• Kuruizawa Station Memorial Museum
  Karuizawa, KIta-Saku, Nagano – electric 10000 and EF63-2
• Mikasa Tetsudo Mura, Hokkaido
  Locos 59609 C12-2
• Freight Railway Museum
  Inabe, Mie
• Hitoyoshi City SL Museum
  Engine shed, Hisatsu-sen, Kyushu, loco D51-170
• Nitu Railroad Musuem
  Akiha-ku, Niigata
• Nansatsu Railway Museum
  Minami-Satsuma, Kagoshima
• Fukuchiyama Poppoland Railway Museum
  Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, loco C58-56
• Nitchu Line Memorial
  Old Station at Atsushio, Kitakata City, Fukushima
• Kubiki Railway Museum
  Joetsu, Niigata.
• Yanahara Fureai Mine Park
  Misaki, Okayama. Units and Line
• Akazawa Logging Railroad
  Agematsu, Kiso, Nagano – sightseeing railway
• Tagawa-Ita Coal Mine Musuem
  Kyushu, loco 59684
  plus other mining musuems nearby
• Ubaranai, Hokkaido
  steam loco and carriage Japanese Wiki
• Hitoyoshi City SL Museum (Yatake Station, JR Kyushu Hisatsu line)
  engine shed with D51-170
• Industrial Museum
  Tobu Dobutsu Koen station
• Hikari Plaza Shinkansen Museum
  Kokubunji, Tokyo
• Museum Meiji Mura Village
  Tram line and steam line at Inuyama, Aichi
• Sendai Streetcar Museum
  Tomisawa, Taihaku-ku, Sendai – trams
• Meitetsu Shiryokan, Kani, Gifu
• Tetsudo Rekishi Park
  Iyo Saijo, Yosan linbe, Shikoku – DF50-1, Shinkansen car
• Mikasa Railway Village, Hokkaido
  Horonai/Mikasa S-304, C12-2, 59609
• Kamui-Kotan Station
  Asahikawa, Hokkaido – station and 29638, C57-201, D51-6
• Kofoku Station
  Obohro, Hokkaido – station and railcars

Last updated: 18/12/2012.