How Airport Protests Created Japan’s Shortest Railway

The Shibayama Railway is 2.2 km (1.3 miles) long, making it the shortest railway system in Japan. Despite the old trains, which date back to the 1970s, the line itself opened in 2002. It uses a half-abandoned airport station, travels almost entirely within an airport, and opened after a long history of tensions between government and locals. It essentially acts as an extension of the Keisei Railway system.

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