Massive redevelopment projects are accelerating around Tokyo’s sprawling Shinagawa Station with the planned opening of the ultrafast maglev Chuo Shinkansen Line that will connect Tokyo and other regions.
SAGA Nearly 150 years after Japan’s first railroad went into service, remnants of that railway unearthed in central Tokyo are headed for a new life in this western prefecture to honor the man whose efforts made it possible.
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A redevelopment project in Tokyo has taken an unexpected turn with the discovery of an embankment from Japan's first railway line. The archeological wonder was unearthed in remarkably good condition, and moves are afoot to preserve it as a national historic site.
The Takanawa Embankment ruins near JR Takanawa Gateway Station in Tokyo’s Minato Ward. The central area is believed to be the remains of Japan’s first traffic light, according to the Minato Ward board of education. (Yuta Ichijo)
Despite an outcry by archaeologists, it will soon be the end of the line for part of the remains of an embankment built off Tokyo about 150 years ago for the nation s first railway service.
East Japan Railway Co. said it will preserve only a portion of the Takanawa Embankment ruins, which stand in the way of a major redevelopment project of the surrounding area.