The South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR; 南滿洲鐵道株式會社, hereafter Manchul), established in 1907 immediately after the Russo-Japanese War, was a Japanese state-owned enterprise that symbolized imperial expansionist policy. Until its dissolution in 1945, the company operated railways across Korea and Manchuria while developing a wide range of businesses, including logistics, passenger transport, and tourism. Craft objects bearing the name of the South Manchuria Railway Company (hereafter SMR-inscribed craft objects), produced in the course of these operations, constitute important historical materials that reveal the character of the company and its railway management strategies when examined alongside contemporary visual sources. In Korea, a wide variety of SMR-inscribed craft objects with both practical and symbolic functions have been preserved. These objects were produced using diverse materials, including ceramics, metalwares made of copper alloys and enameled sheet iron, and glass, with tableware, cooking utensils, and commemorative items accounting for a particularly large proportion. High-quality handcrafted objects made of silver and glass have been identified in first-class dining cars and at the Western-style restaurant Grill in Gyeongseong Station, while commemorative items and pocket watches bear finely executed SMR marks and company inscriptions. Such objects demonstrate that materials and production methods were selectively employed according to the function and spatial context of use. Following the establishment of the Gyeongseong Railway Administration in 1911, the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR) assumed responsibility for overall railway operations in Korea, including facility maintenance, logistics, and passenger services. In this process, systems of craft objects used in Japanese railway spaces were introduced into Korea. The types and formal categories of SMR-inscribed craft objects were closely connected to these policy-driven and functional uses. The modes of organization established during this period were subsequently transferred to the Railway Bureau of the Government-General of Korea after the termination of SMR’s entrusted railway management, forming the foundation of the railway-related craft object system in Korea during the 1930s. By analyzing SMR-inscribed craft objects held in Korean collections within the framework of railway policy and operational space, this study demonstrates that these objects should be understood not as decorative crafts or works of fine art, but as industrial crafts produced and used within the institutional environment of modern railway industry. Through this approach, the paper examines in detail the formation and use of railway-related craft objects during the Japanese colonial period and reconsiders the role of craft in modern industrial society from the perspective of material culture.