In nearby Takaoka, the Manyosen company operates two streetcar lines--since they connect end to end, it's more like one...pic.twitter.com/heDQEQn2Wa
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Back to the mainland, we finally come to the undisputed champ of Japanese trams: the Hiroshima Electric Railway, or "Hiroden"pic.twitter.com/TaTs8Lnck6
Hiroden's massive network crisscrosses the city of Hiroshima, with one line extending out to Miyajima and its famous shrinepic.twitter.com/YX0MVvXxKe
Next in our tour is Kitakyushu, home of the Chikuho Electric Railway, a subsidiary of Nishitetsu.pic.twitter.com/638i4QA75D
Further west, Nagasaki is home to a tram network as well--I never got to ride this, but I visited the main downtown station in 2014pic.twitter.com/Wbnel3OUZk
A little further south, the Kumamoto City Transportation Bureau operates two tram linespic.twitter.com/dcFFc2QXUp
And last but certainly not least, we come to the southernmost tram lines in Japan, in Kagoshima. Much of the route is planted with grass
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The nostalgic 100 series tram is one of my favorites in the country--gorgeous!pic.twitter.com/l7zQoGv601
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