The much-loved monorail at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo halted its service on Thursday after more than 60 years in operation, due to the aging of the train and facilities.
The monorail was launched in 1957 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s transportation bureau as the nation’s first passenger monorail system. Since then, it has carried over 65 million passengers between the zoo’s east and west gardens.
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