It was just after the Sanko Line marked its 40th anniversary when West Japan Railway Co. informed Kazutoshi Masuda, mayor of Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, that it would seek a more “sustainable” public transportation system.
“I knew it meant that the Sanko Line would be scrapped,” the mayor recalled.
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