A station worker learns how to guide a blind passenger during a training session held at Inzai-Makinohara Station on the Hokuso Line in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in November 2020. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Hirotaka Yamasaki, who works at Wakayama City Hall, goes to the bus stop after 7 a.m. every morning and waits for the same bus.
Getting on and off a bus is a real challenge for Yamasaki, 59, who is blind. But taking this particular bus is different because there is always a schoolgirl assisting him.
More than 10 years ago, Yamasaki was at the Kitsunejima Miyamae bus stop near the mouth of the Kinokawa river when he heard a young girl s voice telling him, The bus is here.
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