Eight railway operators in the Kanto region are switching to tickets printed with a QR code to cut the maintenance costs of automatic gates and promote the recycling of used tickets.
Eight east Japan rail operators, including the one operating the Tokyo Monorail to the capital's Haneda airport, have announced they will transition from paper tickets with a magnetic backing to ones that only have QR codes printed on them from 2027 to reduce their environmental impact.
NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The operator of coal-fired steam locomotives in the tourist spot of Nikko in eastern Japan is trialing a biofuel as a way to cut its carbon dioxide emissions, the first such initiative in the country.
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Police in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of stealing 2.18 million yen in cash from a safe stored in Soka Station’s attendant room. According to Tobu Railway Co and police, Toshiaki Iizuka, who lives in in Tochigi Prefecture’s Ashikaga City, is employed at Tobu Station Service,…
KUKI, Saitama Prefecture--For the first time in 33 years, Tobu Railway Co. will introduce a new Spacia limited express train that connects Tokyo’s Asakusa district with the Nikko-Kinugawa area in Tochigi Prefecture.
A coffee can exploded Monday afternoon near a ticket vending machine at a train station in Tokyo, injuring a woman in her 20s who was nearby, authorities say.
A coffee can exploded Monday afternoon near a ticket vending machine at a train station in Tokyo, injuring a woman in her 20s who was nearby, authorities said. Police have taken into custody a Chinese man in his 40s, who they believe placed the can at Nishiarai Station in Adachi…