Before it was built, Saku folk had to take a three-and-a-half-hour train and switch in two towns if they wanted to get to Tokyo. Today, the journey on the Shinkansen takes just 73 minutes to Tokyo. Yanagisawa, now a director with the city’s planning department, said the bullet train also had an indirect economic effect on Saku. Property tax collections rose from ¥4.35mil (RM126,802) in 1996 to ¥519mil (RM15.12mil) this year. Even the countryside has been transformed, with the Shinkansen station area surrounded by hotels, restaurants and a shopping mall where rice fields once were. Saku City mayor Seiji Yanagida said the Shinkansen brought huge economic success for his people. #auspol thestar.my/News/Nation/2014/12/29/Shinkansen-boost-to-small-towns-Bullet-train-lines-bring-indirect-economic-effects-to-rural-Japan/
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:30:48 +0000
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