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- Season 5 New Year Trains: Beginning the New Year with a Journey
- Season 5 JR Gono Line: A Popular Local Line Worth the Journey
- Season 5 Amaterasu Railway: A Tourist Attraction Making the Most of a Discontinued Line
- Season 5 Yamanote Line: Tokyo's Ever Evolving Loop Line
- Season 5 JR Hokkaido's Yubari Line: A Beloved Local Line Comes to an End
- Season 5 Tokyo Metro: A Subway Network On Time & On Track
- Season 5 Nishi-Nippon Railroad: Fine Dining on an Even Finer Tourist Train
- Season 5 Hiroshima Electric Railway: On Track on the Streets
- Season 5 Hankai Tramway: Osaka's One & Only Tram Network
- Season 5 Choshi Electric Railway: Finding New Ways to Get Back on Track
- Season 5 JR Osaka Loop Line: Developing a Better, More User-Friendly Line
- Season 5 Kyoto Tango Railway: A Bus Company to the Rescue
- Season 5 South Hokkaido Railway: A Tourist Train Developed by a Tour Company
- Season 5 Chizu Express: A Top Tier Third Sector Railway
- Season 5 Hitachinaka Seaside Railway: Pulling Together with the Local Community
- Season 5 JR's Ekinaka Development Project: A New Lifestyle Below the Chuo Line
- Season 5 Introducing the N700S: JR Central's Next-Generation Shinkansen
- Season 5 New Technology Opening the Future of the Railway
- Season 5 Reviewing the New Trains of 2019
Japan Railway Journal - Season 5 Episode 14 Chizu Express: A Top Tier Third Sector Railway
8.00 28 minutes Chizu Express is a third sector local railway, which runs 56.1km through the Chugoku Mountains between Tottori and Hyogo Prefectures. From the beginning, the railway was constructed for high-speed operation. While many third sector railway companies are struggling to make a profit, Chizu Express has been in the black for 21 consecutive years. See how the company is able to run through the mountains at 130km/h with their pendulum type express trains, as well as the company's strategies to increase ridership on their local trains. In "Trains in Focus," hop on JR West's "Ametsuchi" tourist train that runs between Tottori and Izumoshi Stations.
