Kagoshima City lies for the mostpart along the coastline looking over Kagoshima Bay towards active volcano Sakurajima. Rising up behind the city is the broad pyroclastic plateau known as shirasu daichi, sandwiching the city on a long and narrow piece of land running roughly north to south. For the 600,000 people who live in Kagoshima City, the local tram is a transport lifeline curving through the city centre and beyond.
We caught up with Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau tram driver Furusaki Kenichi to find out more about the much loved trams, why grass was put on the tracks around the city, and finally what happens if he needs the toilet when driving!
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Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau
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http://www.kotsu-city-kagoshima.jp/
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People of Kagoshima
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5 Comments
The cutest of them all🥰🥰. I love the “behind the scene” of all your videos but this one was particularly “human”😂😂.
Thanks for this interview. Hoping I get to ride on the 501 some day. It's my dream to visit Japan. I guess I'm from the Showa period: I must push my Son to take me soon because I'm not getting any younger. 😂
I'd love to see the views from the tram; Fukushima is particularly beautiful and somewhere I want to visit.
Fantastic interview! We would always sort of laugh because it seemed they always were eating the microphone when they announced stops. It’s great to hear his story-and the sweating bullets comment was hilarious!! These videos are great! Please keep up the great work! きばれ!!!!
Beautiful insight to a wonderful way to travel. The use of the ash is a genius idea. The grass tracks look cool, and literally are cool! Any child that grows up inspired by their parents, enough to follow in their footsteps, is a sign of a happy family,. What a great guy. Thanks for sharing.
Didn't you talk about the grass on the tracks before? Or do I remember it from the tour bus?
I might miss Kagoshima this year and instead go to the five prefectures left on my list which are mostly in Tohoku plus Okinawa.