Why Does Japan's Shortest Railway Go Nowhere?

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I had to attempt to export this video file – no joke – 30 times because a corrupted asset kept crashing my editing software. It took four days to export it fully. So this better be worth it. Either way you join me today in Tokyo. Or… near Tokyo. I had a very bad cold when I recorded this footage so I’m a bit low energy but hopefully you manage to muster more excitement than I did for Japan’s shortest independent railway wooo wooooooo wooooooooo. This strange little railway, hidden under Narita International Airport, was created due to a bizarre mix of red tape, privatisation and an extremely violent battle between local residents and Japanese police. Like legit people died. The 2.2km Shibayama Railway is a unique little quirk of Tokyo’s transport system… but why is it here? What’s its purpose? Why should you care? ------------ Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of. Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about... until now. Like and subscribe and all that. Follow me on IG at @WhatOnEarthIsThis CHAPTERS: 00:19 Intro 00:59 Japanes rail hierarchy 03:28 Shibayama Railway 04:37 History of Narita Airport 10:18 What's it like? 14:24 In conclusion