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Kitaca (Japanese: キタカ, romanized: Kitaka) is a rechargeable contactless smart card ticketing system for public transport in Sapporo, Japan. It launched on October 25, 2008 and is managed by Hokkaido Railway Company. The card'a name is a combination of the word for "north" (北, kita) and the English loanword "card".
Launched on March 23, 2013, the service allows riders of trains, buses, and other public transport to seamlessly use the same card in all major Japanese cities, across hundreds of public, privately owned, and third-sector systems. [1] [2] As of March 9, 2024, it is available on services run by 326 transit operators. [3] [4] [5]
Transport in Japan is also very expensive in international comparison, reflecting high tolls and taxes, particularly on automobile transport. [2] Japan's spending on roads has been large. [3] The 1,200,000 kilometres (750,000 mi) of paved road are the main means of transport. [4] Traffic in Japan drives on the left.
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In 1942, the Japanese government forced a number of private transit businesses in Tokyo to merge into the TMEB. These included the bus lines of the Tokyo Underground Railway (whose Ginza Line remained independent), the Keio Electric Railway and the Tokyu Corporation , as well as the Oji Electric Tramway (operator of the Arakawa Line) and ...
There are a total of 142 unique stations (i.e., counting stations served by multiple lines only once) on the Tokyo Metro network, or 179 total stations if each station on each line counts as one station. [1]