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Mass Transportation System Attractions In Asia

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Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres , about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely popul...
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Mass Transportation System Attractions In Asia

  • 1. Chiba Urban Monorail Chiba
    The Chiba Urban Monorail is a two-line suspended monorail system located in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is owned and operated by Chiba Urban Monorail Co., Ltd , a so-called third-sector company established on March 20, 1979. Investors include Chiba Prefecture and the city of Chiba. The first segment opened on March 28, 1988, the remainder 11 years later on March 24, 1999. The PASMO contactless smart card can be used to purchase fares. It is the longest suspended monorail system at 15.2 km in track length.
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  • 2. Keisei Electric Railway Narita
    The Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. is a major private railway in Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, Japan. The name Keisei is the combination of the kanji 京 from Tokyo and 成 from Narita , which the railway's main line connects. The combination uses different readings than the ones used in the city names. The railway's main line runs from Tokyo to Narita and the eastern suburb cities of Funabashi, Narashino, Yachiyo, and Sakura. Keisei runs an airport express train called the Skyliner from Ueno and Nippori to Narita International Airport. In addition to its railway business, the Keisei Electric Railway Company owns large bus and taxi services and some real estate holdings. It owns a large share of the Oriental Land Company which owns and manages the Tokyo Disney Resort.
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  • 3. Moka Railway Tochigi Prefecture
    Mooka is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2017, the city had an estimated population of 79,660, and a population density of 476 persons per km². Its total area is 167.34 km². Moka is known for the Mooka Railway, which operates steam locomotives. The train line stretches from Shimodate, Ibaraki Prefecture to Motegi, Tochigi Prefecture. The town produces 7,000 tons of strawberries annually. The name of the city is given as Moka City per the city's official website; however, the local train station is Mōka Station, and the direct transliteration of the city name into Hepburn romanization is Mooka.
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  • 5. Fukuoka City Subway Fukuoka
    Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of Japanese island Kyushu. It is the most populous city on the island, followed by Kitakyushu. It is the largest city and metropolitan area west of Keihanshin. The city was designated on April 1, 1972, by government ordinance. Greater Fukuoka, with a population of 2.5 million people , is part of the heavily industrialized Fukuoka–Kitakyushu zone. As of 2015, Fukuoka is Japan’s sixth largest city, having passed the population of Kobe. As of July 2011, Fukuoka passed the population of Kyoto. Since the founding of Kyoto in 794, this marks the first time that a city west of the Kinki region has a larger population than Kyoto. In ancient times, however, the area near Fukuoka, the Chikushi region, was thought b...
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  • 6. Seoul Metro Seoul
    Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. With surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, Seoul forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area, home to roughly half of the country's population. Seoul is ranked as the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world and is larger than London and Paris.Strategically situated on the Han River, Seoul's history stretches back over two thousand years, when it was founded in 18 BC by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. The city was later designated the capital of Korea under the Joseon dynasty. Seoul is surrounded by a mountainous and hilly landscape, with Bukhan Mountain located on the northern edge of the city. As with its long history, the Seoul Capital Area con...
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  • 7. Tokyo Metro Tokyo
    Tokyo , officially Tokyo Metropolis , one of the 47 prefectures of Japan, has served as the Japanese capital since 1869. As of 2014 the Greater Tokyo Area ranked as the most populous metropolitan area in the world. The urban area houses the seat of the Emperor of Japan, of the Japanese government and of the National Diet. Tokyo forms part of the Kantō region on the southeastern side of Japan's main island, Honshu, and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Tokyo was formerly named Edo when Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city as his headquarters in 1603. It became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from Kyoto in 1868; at that time Edo was renamed Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolis formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo . ...
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  • 8. China Railway High-speed Shanghai
    China Railway High-speed is a high-speed rail service operated by China Railway. The introduction of CRH series was a major part of the sixth national railway speedup, implemented on April 18, 2007. In 2017, China Railway High-speed provides service to 29 of the country's 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and operates over 25,000 km 's passenger tracks in length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in commercial service. It is the world's most extensively used railway service, with 1.713 billion trips delivered in 2017 bringing the total cumulative number of trips to 7 billion.Over 1000 sets of rolling stock are operated under the CRH brand including Hexie CRH1/2A/5 that are designed to have a maximum speed of 250 km/h , and CRH2C/3 have a maxim...
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  • 9. BTS Skytrain Bangkok
    The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS or the Skytrain , is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL , a subsidiary of BTS Group Holdings, under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration . The system consists of 35 stations along two lines: the Sukhumvit Line running northwards and eastwards, terminating at Mo Chit and Samrong respectively, and the Silom Line which serves Silom and Sathon Roads, the central business district of Bangkok, terminating at National Stadium and Bang Wa. The lines interchange at Siam station and have a combined route length of 38.7 kilometers . The system is also known as the Elevated Train in Commemoration of HM the King's 6th Cycle Birthday .Besides the BTS...
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  • 10. Beijing Subway Beijing
    The Beijing Subway is a rapid transit rail network that serves the urban and suburban districts of Beijing municipality. The subway is the world's busiest in annual ridership, with 3.78 billion trips delivered in 2017, averaging 10.35 million per day, with peak single-day ridership reaching 13.49 million. The subway network has 22 lines, 370 stations and 608.2 km of route length in operation, and is the second longest subway system in the world after the Shanghai Metro. The Beijing Subway opened in 1969 and is the oldest metro system in mainland China. Before the system underwent rapid expansion since 2002, it consisted of only two lines. The existing network still cannot adequately meet the city's mass transit needs. Beijing Subway's extensive expansion plans call for 998.5 km of lines se...
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  • 11. Airport express New Delhi
    The Airport Express Line or Delhi Airport Metro Express is a Delhi Metro line from New Delhi Metro Station to Dwarka Sector 21, linking the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The line, also known as the Orange line was opened on 23 February 2011 after missing four previously set deadlines. It was built at a cost of ₹57 billion, of which Reliance Infra paid ₹28.85 billion , Reliance Infra will also pay fees on a Revenue-share modelThe total length of the line is 22.7 km, of which 15.7 km is underground and 7 km, from Buddha Jayanti Park to Mahipalpur, is elevated. The trains travel at up to 135 km/h, instead of up to 80 km/h as on the rest of the metro. Travel time is 19 minutes from New Delhi to the Airport's terminal 2, T2 and terminal 3, T3.Service was suspended from 7 July 2012 to...
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  • 12. Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad Takamatsu
    The Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad Co., Ltd. is a transportation company in Kagawa Prefecture, which is on the island of Shikoku, Japan. With headquarters in Takamatsu, the company operates three passenger railway lines, as well as bus subsidiaries. It was established on November 1, 1943. In 2005, it reported sales of ¥3,694,000,000 with a capitalization of ¥250,000,000.
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  • 13. Yui Rail Naha
    The Okinawa Urban Monorail , also known as Yui Rail , is a monorail line in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Operated by Okinawa Urban Monorail, Inc. , it opened on August 10, 2003, and is the only public rail system in Okinawa Prefecture, the first rail line on Okinawa since World War II. Also Naha Airport Station is the westernmost, and Akamine Station is the southernmost rail station in Japan. It uses the OKICA as its contactless card.
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  • 14. Aizu Railway Aizuwakamatsu
    Aizuwakamatsu is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of September 2014, the city had an estimated population of 122,715, and a population density of 321 persons per km². The total area is 383.03 km².
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  • 15. Nagoya City Subway Nagoya
    Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is Japan's third-largest incorporated city and the fourth-most-populous urban area. It is located on the Pacific coast on central Honshu. It is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Kitakyushu. It is also the center of Japan's third-largest metropolitan region, known as the Chūkyō metropolitan area. As of 2015, 2.28 million people lived in the city, part of Chūkyō Metropolitan Area's 10.11 million people. It is also one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.
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