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A man mourns the victims of the 2005 train crash in the city of Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Saturday. | POOL / VIA KYODO
Jiji Apr 25, 2021
West Japan Railway Co. is not planning to publicly display the train involved in a crash that killed 106 passengers in April 2005 for the time being.
Victims of the crash were mourned on Sunday, which marked 16 years since the accident.
Last year, the company announced a plan to build a facility to preserve all seven cars of the crashed train in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, in around autumn 2024.
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An unmanned stand, left, stores strollers available for rent at JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on April 22. (Hikaru Uchida)
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on April 22 began renting out strollers at train stations in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area to cater to families who want to avoid having to lug their strollers aboard trains.
Unlike similar rental services offered only inside commercial facilities in train station buildings, the new service allows customers to use strollers both inside and outside stations.
“I avoid riding on a train when it s crowded because recent strollers are so huge that they might annoy other passengers in the same car,” said Ai Suzuki, 30, a mother, who was with her 2-year-old son in a stroller. “I think a service like this is convenient.”
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.