Japan Railways kept the remote Kami-Shirataki train station open for years just so a single high school girl could commute to her classes, finally closing the station only after she graduated in 2016.

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Japan Railways kept the remote Kami-Shirataki train station open for years just so a single high school girl could commute to her classes, finally closing the station only after she graduated in 2016. While Western transit authorities will happily cancel your morning train because a squirrel looked at a track sideways, Japan literally operated a personalized locomotive service at a financial loss for an audience of one. The train would stop there twice a day, synchronized perfectly with the girl's school schedule. It is a heartwarming testament to their commitment to education, while simultaneously serving as a crushing reminder of how profoundly inadequate public transportation is basically everywhere else on the planet