by Bryce Marley-Jarrett
As soon as you enter Japan, you will notice one form of transport reigns over all: the train. Japan has the busiest train lines in the world, with over 22.24 billion passengers using it every year and growing. Japan has a long history with trains and have had amazing technological advancements with their systems, that is where today’s attraction comes in. Today we have a guide to one of the most fascinating museums in Japan, The Railway Museum, located just an hour outside Tokyo.
Since their beginnings in the late nineteenth century, railways have been the most important means of mass transport. Since the Meiji century, the government has promoted railways as the most efficient public transport option for Japan, as a country that severely lacks it’s own fossil fuel resources, being so reliant on imports, rail was a way to move the masses with the most minimal fuels imported needed.
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