Under the circumstances described above, some railroad projects were already being drawn up in some places, such as Satsuma Domain, Saga Domain and Edo, in the end of the Edo period.
鉄道の敷設計画は上記の影響を受け、幕末には既に薩摩藩や佐賀藩、江戸幕府などを中心にいくらか出てきた。