Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum
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The Nagoya City Tram & Subway Museum (レトロでんしゃ館) is located in the city of Nagoya, central Japan
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The museum houses a collection of the city's old subway trains and tram
s. The museum visitors can practice driving Nagoya's present-day subway trains and older models of streetcars using Playstation
-style computer simulators. Model train displays and staff uniforms and hats complement the situation. Outside the museum is a giant drill
, which was used to dig Nagoya's subway lines.
Access by public transport is Akaike Station
on the Tsurumai Line
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Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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The museum houses a collection of the city's old subway trains and tram
Tram
A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...
s. The museum visitors can practice driving Nagoya's present-day subway trains and older models of streetcars using Playstation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
-style computer simulators. Model train displays and staff uniforms and hats complement the situation. Outside the museum is a giant drill
Drill
A drill or drill motor is a tool fitted with a cutting tool attachment or driving tool attachment, usually a drill bit or driver bit, used for drilling holes in various materials or fastening various materials together with the use of fasteners. The attachment is gripped by a chuck at one end of...
, which was used to dig Nagoya's subway lines.
Access by public transport is Akaike Station
Akaike Station
Akaike Station is the name of three train stations in Japan:* Akaike Station * Akaike Station * Akaike Station...
on the Tsurumai Line
Tsurumai Line
The is a subway line which forms part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Japan. It runs from Kami Otai in Nishi-ku, Nagoya to Akaike in Nisshin. The Tsurumai Line's color on maps is light blue. Its stations carry the letter T followed by a number. Officially, the line is called...
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