Skyrail Midorizaka Line:
Aki-ku,
Hiroshima,
Hiroshima, 1998. (suspended monorail) A commuter line in a residential development suburb of the city. It is also considered as an automated guideway transit.
"Suspended Train" at the Exhibition of Transportation and Electricity in Osaka, 1928. Operated only for a week, from November 28 until December 3. It was the first monorail in the nation, as well as the only one in the
pre-war period.
ToeiUeno Zoo Monorail: Tokyo, 1958-2023. It linked the two sectors of
the zoo in
Ueno Park. Service was suspended on 31 October 2019 and permanently closed in December 2023.
Yomiuriland Monorail, Kanagawa and Tokyo, 1964 — 1978.
Other monorails
Slope cars are small automated monorails found in the various parts of Japan. Unlike the monorails above, slope cars are not legally considered as railways. Similar concepts include Raxcars and Monoriders.
There are also small industrial monorails used in various places, most notably in steep
orchards, especially of mikan citrus.
[1] The first of its kind was invented in 1966.
Vista liner is another type of monorail which is not legally a railway. The system is smaller than ordinary monorails, but larger than slope cars. Vista liners can be typically seen in
amusement parks, such as
Expo Land.
Automated guideway transits
Strictly speaking, these lines are not monorails, though they resemble one at first glance. The rail in the center of the track serve only to guide the train, not support it, so they don't qualify as monorails.