Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo Monorail, Japan’s oldest monorail which started operations in 1957, is formally closing down on December twenty seventh, 2023 after being shuttered since 2019. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bureau of Transportation made the announcement that the long-lasting 300-meter line that connects two stations inside Ueno Zoo shall be completely decommissioned and dismantled starting January 2024.
As its identify denotes, the Ueno Zoo Monorail has run solely contained in the confines of the favored Ueno Zoo positioned in Ueno Park. The quick trip takes solely round 90 seconds to journey between the east and west stations. While the gap might be simply walked, generations of Japanese households and vacationers have fond recollections of using the distinctive single-rail practice. The quirky monorail has held nostalgic novelty worth since beginning up over 65 years in the past.
The Bureau sadly declared there shall be no closing commemorative journeys because the practice has already been out of fee since 2019 on account of deterioration of the rail and practice itself. The extended suspension during the last 4 years was prolonged indefinitely in the course of the pandemic. This previous July, plans have been introduced to formally stop operations in summer season 2024, however simply this month the final word final day was formally moved as much as December twenty seventh, abruptly expediting everlasting closure.
Demolition and removing of the long-lasting Ueno Zoo Monorail’s rails and practice automobile will start January 2024, with anticipated full extraction accomplished by spring 2025. In its place, the Bureau famous a “new substitute vehicle” would open for service by spring 2026. The phrasing signifies it’s going to seemingly not be a monorail. As such, the extra fashionable, practical Tokyo Monorail connecting Hamamatsucho Station and Haneda Airport will now stand because the final remaining monorail system in Tokyo.