Japan maintains a train station only for a girl to go to school

Education is very important to the Asian country and it shows in the way a train station was operated just for a girl not to miss days at her school.

Japan maintains a train station only for a girl to go to school

Kami-Shirataki station, on the island of Hokkaido in Japan, has been used for years by a single female passenger and the train makes only two stops there a day.

The reason? The teenager needs to go to school and Japan Railways assumes the impracticality of the situation (maintaining one station and only making two stops a day for one person) because education is the priority.

Three years ago the train schedules were adjusted to suit the young girl, who will graduate in March, which will mean the station’s permanent closure in the rural area of Japan’s second largest island.

The low birth rate in Japan (1.41 children per woman in 2012), in Peru this number rises to 2.45, and the increase in the elderly population have affected the train system in rural areas, which has meant the closure of several stations.