Case in point, the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) just announced the completion of a 3D-printed train station, which it says is a world first. Plans to replace a crumbling wooden station in ...

I visited train stations around Japan that had adopted melodies as a strategy for local revitalization. I wrote about 18 of them in my book Eki mero monogatari (Tales of Train Station Melodies ...

OSAKA -- West Japan Railway and partner Serendix assembled what they say is the world's first 3D-printed train station this week, using technology that railway operators hope will help cut down ...

As Japan’s population shrinks, maintaining rail service in remote small towns is becoming a challenge. Is this the answer? The new Hatsushima train station was printed at a factory, shipped to ...

Workers in rural Japan built a new train station in just six hours between the last train of the night and the first one the next morning. The new structure replaced a 75-year-old wooden station ...

A major railway operator in Japan is set to build the world's first 3D-printed train station in just six hours. The new Hatsushima Station will replace a weathered wooden structure with a modern ...

The transport ministry plans to increase the number of train station platforms with platform ... from the current 70% to 80% by fiscal 2030. Japan began working harder to make public transport ...

(Kyodo) HAMAMATSU/TOKYO, JAPAN (Kyodo) -- With rural Japan experiencing severe depopulation, some unstaffed train stations and vacant homes are being transformed into places for tourists to stay ...

Standing on platform 19 at Tokyo Station, a bustling cathedral ... is now a senior executive at Central Japan Railway Company. He told me that since the train's introduction, it has carried ...