So aside from school trips, she is depending on her family's car and will never use any train again after being old enough to drive on her own. Well done.

Why not a flag stop with an actually attractive schedule?

>reading about news in Japan
>on the Chinese gov owned agency

Brilliant reporting from Citylab.
So how long until this line gets axed?

I'd live at the station but I'd want to keep the railroad running if it gets shut down

Wonder if it would be at all easy to drop the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekihoku_Main_Line (Kami-Shirataki is one of its stations).

>>131284
Probably internal bureaucratic decisions. But otherwise, it's a redundant station as the main Shirataki station is 3km up the line. In the other direction though, as per the wiki, it's like another 30km until the next station.
Once she gets a job, she'll probably move towards Tokyo anyway like everyone else.

On the other hand I guess - there is Koboro station on another line which is 6km from adjacent stations. It serves even less purpose and is indeed a flag stop. It's Japan's Wondabyne station in the sense that it can only be accessed by train or boat. According to wiki they wanted to close it but they haven't for some reason.

There was a simplar situation in the UK many years ago. a station in the UK was kept open for a nurse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaSWV7H4feQ
Crazily they actually banned anybody else from catching the train there!

You've all been rused!
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/remote-hokkaido-train-station-stays-open-for-one-high-school-girl-perhaps-not

Hush! Don't let the nine-gaggers know! They're having too much fun with this.

>>131306 well that railway is now a trail :(

RN24 is probably as close to a reliable sourse as one will find.

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/12/train-continues-to-stop-at-rural-station-for-lone-schoolgirl-until-she-graduates-in-march/

The tl;dr? The station the girl uses is not Kami-Shirataki, but the neighbouring Kyu-Shirataki. She's still the only one to board at that station.

>>131354
That Japanese Amshack sure looks comfy.

Well, JR Hokkaido does have its own version of the Amshack:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Biruwa_Station is one of many small stations whose waiting room is a repurposed carbody.

Still, I rather hope JRH does not end up as a desk drawer in JRE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3iXcwN6h8 -- JRH's corporate song.

>>131354
And according to plebbit she's getting creeped on by the tetsuota ever since this story blew up.

Why am I so utterly unsurprised?

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/01/21/japans-train-otaku-ruin-the-sweet-story-of-the-lone-school-girl-and-her-train-station/

Gits.