Twilight Express to end service in spring of 2015

Twilight Express to end service in spring of 2015

OSAKA, Japan - A family gets a commemorative picture taken in front of the Twilight Express at JR Osaka Station on May 28, 2014. The West Japan Railway Co.'s luxurious sleeper train linking Osaka, western Japan, with Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, will end service next spring due to the aging of the rolling stock produced about 40 years ago.

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