[Machine Translation] Japan's first monthly timetable was published on October 5, 1894, by Koto Shinshinsha in Kyobashi, Tokyo. In other words, no timetables were published for sale to the general public for 22 years after the railroads began service on September 12 of the lunar calendar in 1872. In order to clarify the history of the blank period of "timetables" in the early days of the railroads, this book attempts to clarify the situation of railroad operation and transportation at that time by finding and systematizing various materials and reproducing timetables in a modern style.