Railway licenses

You need a railway license to lay new track or to build stations and depots. The same goes for reshaping track to extend it. Licenses are per prefecture.

How to

1. On the map, open ≡ → “🚃 Railway licenses”.
2. Choose a prefecture (tap the map, or search by prefecture or city name).
3. Write a summary and a planned route (optional), then apply.
4. The review result (approved or rejected) arrives as a 🔔 notification.

Good to know

• A license covers every municipality and ward in that prefecture, including ones added later.
• The application fee is “prefecture's population × 5 X”, rounded up to the nearest 10,000 X.
• The lowest fee is 1,000,000 X. For Ruri Prefecture, it is about 56,000,000 X.
• You pay the fee when you apply. It is refunded if your application is rejected or withdrawn.
• You can't apply for a prefecture where you already have a license or an application in progress.
• In a prefecture with no license, you will see “No railway license for this prefecture (〇〇 Prefecture)”, and you can't build.
• If a municipality has no prefecture, you apply for that municipality instead.
• Former municipal licenses have been converted into licenses for their prefectures.