1. 10 Oct 2025 Administrative Guidance
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| Law / type | Railway Business Act / Administrative Guidance |
| Summary | From September 8 to 11, 2025, the Hokuriku-Shinetsu Transport Bureau conducted a safety audit of Tateyama Kurobe Kankō Corporation. The audit identified areas requiring improvement, leading to an administrative guidance directive. The company is required to enhance its safety management system by establishing a framework for accurately understanding on-site conditions, regularly verifying operational status, organizing issues, implementing necessary improvements, and ensuring the feasibility of these improvements. Specifically, the company must ensure that inspection records for freight cars during the one-year inspection, critical component inspection, and general inspection on the Tateyama Ropeway Railway line are properly documented, in accordance with the Tateyama Ropeway Railway Implementation Standards. The company must report the measures taken by November 10, 2025. The guidance is issued under the Railway Technical Standards Ordinance, and the enforcement authority is the Hokuriku-Shinetsu Transport Bureau. |
| Source | https://www.mlit.go.jp/nega-inf/cgi-bin/search.cgi?jigyoubunya=tetudou&EID=search&no=206 |