Season
Season 11 Episode
- Season 5 New Year Trains: Beginning the New Year with a Journey
- Season 5 JR Gono Line: A Popular Local Line Worth the Journey
- Season 5 Amaterasu Railway: A Tourist Attraction Making the Most of a Discontinued Line
- Season 5 Yamanote Line: Tokyo's Ever Evolving Loop Line
- Season 5 JR Hokkaido's Yubari Line: A Beloved Local Line Comes to an End
- Season 5 Tokyo Metro: A Subway Network On Time & On Track
- Season 5 Nishi-Nippon Railroad: Fine Dining on an Even Finer Tourist Train
- Season 5 Hiroshima Electric Railway: On Track on the Streets
- Season 5 Hankai Tramway: Osaka's One & Only Tram Network
- Season 5 Choshi Electric Railway: Finding New Ways to Get Back on Track
- Season 5 JR Osaka Loop Line: Developing a Better, More User-Friendly Line
- Season 5 Kyoto Tango Railway: A Bus Company to the Rescue
- Season 5 South Hokkaido Railway: A Tourist Train Developed by a Tour Company
- Season 5 Chizu Express: A Top Tier Third Sector Railway
- Season 5 Hitachinaka Seaside Railway: Pulling Together with the Local Community
- Season 5 JR's Ekinaka Development Project: A New Lifestyle Below the Chuo Line
- Season 5 Introducing the N700S: JR Central's Next-Generation Shinkansen
- Season 5 New Technology Opening the Future of the Railway
- Season 5 Reviewing the New Trains of 2019
Japan Railway Journal - Season 5 Episode 6 Tokyo Metro: A Subway Network On Time & On Track
8.00 28 minutes Tokyo Metro operates 9 subway lines with a network stretching a total of 195km. Connecting to a number of main stations in Tokyo on both private and JR lines, Tokyo Metro carries 7.4 million passengers and makes 5,700 trips per day. To handle the demands of such a high-density line, operating schedules are broken down into 5-second increments. We go behind the scenes to find out how the drivers are trained to operate such a precise schedule. Also, see how Japan's very first subway line is being transformed using the latest technology.
