Transportation
A Bittersweet Ending for a Japanese Train Station and Its Lone Passenger
On the island of Hokkaido, the Kyu-shirataki train station’s last remaining patron—a student—has graduated from high school.
The story of a defunct train station in Hokkaido, Japan, that stayed open so that its sole patron—a teenage girl—could commute to school has come to a bittersweet end: Eighteen-year-old Kana Harada graduated from high school last Friday, March 25, and the Kyu-shirataki station—where she boarded a train every morning to travel to school, about 35 minutes away—has finally closed.