Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I still refer to it occasionally and had to add today's
Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
Today, October 14 is “Tetsudo no Hi” (鉄道の日) or “Train Day” or "Railway Day" in Japan. On year Meiji 5 (明治５年 or 1872) October 14 first passenger train service in Japan started between Shinbashi (station was at current Caretta Shiodome next to JR Shinbashi station, there is a plaque explaining the historic site) and Yokohama (current JR Sakuragi-cho station).
Happy Tetsudo no Hi everybody!
There's now a Wikipedia page in Japanese for this topic - it makes it convenient to see a list of the dates using a machine translation tool
http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...24%26bih%3D504