JRW 225-5000 Kinokuni Line (Kisei Main Line) / Photo by nobu3 withfoxy / Source: Wikimedia.org
A reporter boards a “loss-making local train line” to investigate the situation. The JR Kinokuni Line, which connects Shirahama Station and Shingu Station in Wakayama Prefecture, has publicly announced that it is “in the red.”
The length of this section is 95.2 kilometers, and the average number of passengers per kilometer per day is 1,085.
The deficit amounts to 2.86 billion yen per year (data at the time of broadcast). Local trains run once every three hours, but some people said they would be “in trouble if they stopped running.”
