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This is a list of preserved Japanese steam locomotives in working condition. The list includes mainline-operational locomotives, those operated on short dedicated tracks within museum premises, and locomotives awaiting overhaul to return to mainline service.

JGR/JNR Standard locomotives

Type	Number	Builder	Built year	Operator	Status	Image	Notes
Class 160	12 (originally called 23, later 165)	Sharp, Stewart and Company	1874	Meiji-mura	Limited operationality		The locomotive is the sole surviving example of the class.
Class 7100	7105 Yoshitsune	H.K. Porter, Inc.	1880?	JR West	Limited operationality
Class 8620	8630	Kisha Kaisha	1914	JR West	Limited operationality
Class C10	C10 8	Kawasaki	1930	Oigawa Railway	Mainline operational		The locomotive is the sole surviving example of the class. The locomotive has operated on the Oigawa Line since 1997.
Class C12	C12 66	Hitachi	1933	Mooka Railway	Mainline operational
Class C56	C56 44	Mitsubishi	1936	Oigawa Railway	Awaiting overhaul		The locomotive was built for use in Hokkaido, sent to Burma during the war, brought back to Japan by railfans in 1979 and has been operating on the line since 1980. Taken out of service in 2019 and awaiting overhaul.
Class C57	C57 1	Kawasaki	1937	JR West	Mainline operational
Class D51	D51 200	JGR Hamamatsu Works	1938	JR West	Mainline operational
Class C56	C56 135	Hitachi	1938	Oigawa Railway	Undergoing restoration		The locomotive was withdrawn in 1975 and preserved in Kato, Hyogo. It was purchased by the Oigawa Railway in 2022 and has been undergoing restoration since.
Class C56	C56 160	Kawasaki	1939	JR West	Limited operationality		The locomotive was withdrawn from mainline services in 2018 and has since been operating on the 800-metre track within the grounds of the Kyoto Railway Museum.
Class C58	C58 239	Kawasaki	1940	JR East	Mainline operational		The locomotive was estored in 2012. Its　scheduled service ended in 2023 due to the retirement of carriages based at Morioka depot.
Class D51	D51 498	JGR Takatori Works	1940	JR East	Mainline operational		The locomotive was estored in 1988.
Class C11	C11 171	Kawasaki	1940	JR Hokkaido	Mainline operational		The locomotive never left Hokkaido during its operational life. Restored to haul excursion trains by JR Hokkaido in 1999.
Class C11	C11 190	Kawasaki	1940	Oigawa Railway	Mainline operational		The locomotive was withdrawn from service in 1974 and preserved in a private collection until 2001. Restoration works completed in 2003 and the locomotive has operated on the line since then.
Class C11	C11 207	Hitachi	1941	Tobu Railway	Mainline operational		The locomotive never left Hokkaido during its operational life. Restored to haul excursion trains by JR Hokkaido in 2000 and remained in operation until 2014. Since 2016, it has been leased to Tobu Railways.
Class C11	C11 227	Nippon Sharyo	1942	Oigawa Railway	Awaiting overhaul		The locomotive was the first steam locomotive to be regularly operated for heritage purposes in Japan. It has been awaiting overhaul since 2021.
Class C58	C58 363	Kawasaki	1944	Chichibu Railway	Mainline operational
Class C11	C11 325	Nippon Sharyo	1946	Tobu Railway	Mainline operational		The locomotive was restored by Mooka Railway in 1998 and operated on the line until 2020. It entered the Tobu service in the same year.
Class C57	C57 180	Mitsubishi	1946	JR East	Mainline operational		The locomotive was restored to haul the Banetsu Monogatari service in between Niigata and Aizu-wakamatsu in 1999.
Class C11	C11 123	Nippon Sharyo	1947	Tobu Railway	Mainline operational		The locomotive was originally built for a private railway in Shiga as C11 1, used on Yubetsu Coal Mine Line in Hokkaido, preserved as part of a private collection until 2018. It was purchased by Tobu in 2018 and restoration completed in 2022. The number was changed to C11 123 when it entered the Tobu service.
Class C62	C62 2	Hitachi	1948	JR West	Limited operationality
Class C61	C61 2	Mitsubishi	1948	JR West	Limited operationality
Class C61	C61 20	Mitsubishi	1949	JR West	Mainline operational

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