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Above: YouTubeCA video - Trams in Kagoshima, Japan 2013 (市電は鹿児島の中です.) - Length: 10:13 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Kagoshima, Japan - Kagoshima City Trams (2019) - Length: 3:56 mins. |
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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau (鹿児島市交通局))
1 | 鹿児島駅前 (Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 交通局前 (Kōtsūkyoku-mae) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) - 谷山 (Taniyama) |
2 | 清水町 (Shimizu-chō) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 西鹿児島駅前 (West Kagoshima Station) - 郡元 (Kōrimoto) |
3 | 鹿児島駅前 (Kagoshima Station) - 高見馬場 (Takamibaba) - 伊敷町 (Ishiki-chō) |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tram lines: 19.3 km.
HISTORY
- Electric tramway: 1 Dec. 1912 - today.
GAUGE
- Electric tramway: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Demery, L.W., Forty, R., De Groote, R. and Higgins, J.W. Electric railways of Japan - Vol.3: Western Japan. Gloucester (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1997.
- Forty, R. & Higgins, J.W. "Japan today - Part 2: Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kagoshima", Modern Tramway & Light Rapid Transit, Feb. 1977 (40: 470), p.50-60.
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