Japanese train twice a day runs for a single passenger

Kyu-shirataki Train Station Hokkaidi Japan

“If you educate a girl, you educate a whole nation.” Said  Dr. Helene Gayle. And here Japan realizes the statement.

Kyu-shirataki Train station, on the northern island of Hokkaido Japan.

  

The student makes her way to the platform.

Neither it’s a movie nor a fairy tale…Strange to listen but it's true, on this station, a train stops twice a day with a unique time table,  just to pick and leave a single student, depending upon the girl needs to go to school and back.

For the past three years, a train has stopped at the remote Kami-Shirataki station in the far north of Japan just twice a day. At 7:04 am prompt, it takes on a single passenger - a student on her way to school - and brings her home again at 5:08 pm. 

 

Stoppage of train depends upon Schoolgirl's time table.

Three years ago, the Japanese Railway decided to close it down. However they changed their minds after they discovered a young girl used the station to go to high school every day. For years now train has stopped at the station just for her. Japan Railway will keep the train station open until she leaves school i.e. till 26 March this year.

Trains stop at the station based on the school girl's timetable and pass by when she is on holiday on her classes are off.

“Why should I not die for a country like this when the government is already to go an extra mile just for me,” one commentator wrote on CCTV News’s post.”This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroots level. Every citizen matters. No child left behind.”

People are tipping their hats to Japanese government for making education a top priority. Some made a comment, “Now the whole dictionary will be small to describe Japanese people and their government in a world”

 

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