Facility to preserve crashed JR West train completed

SUITA, OSAKA PREF. –

West Japan Railway, or JR West, showed to the press Wednesday its recently completed facility to preserve a train that crashed in April 2005, killing 106 passengers and the train’s driver.

JR West has begun to allow bereaved relatives and people injured in the accident to tour the facility, which was completed last Friday.

The facility, which sits next to JR West’s employee training center in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, will not be opened to the general public, in principle, as opinions are divided among the bereaved families and surviving victims.