Tokyo Monorail celebrates 1.5 billionth passenger

Tokyo Monorail celebrates 1.5 billionth passenger

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Kawahara (C), a graduate school student from Sapporo, Hokkaido, is given memorial goods at Hamamatsucho station Jan. 24 as he became the 1.5 billionth passenger of the Tokyo Monorail service linking central Tokyo and Haneda airport, about 42 years after the monorail opened in the year of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. (Kyodo

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