The Lost Keihan Streetcar near Keage Station.
Last October when new subway line that ran between Snajo-Keihan and Misasagi opened, the Keihan Streetcar Line of the section was abolished.
The vehicles of the streetcar line are determined to be destroyed one by one. But some of the destroyed vehicles became Ghost Train and now run through Kyoto City at nights.
It's not horror.
Ghost Trains bring things left in the subway train to its owner.
Gorobei Kawaguchi (A fictitious name. 41 years old. A president of a small construction company of Yamashina ward) is also relieved by Ghost Train.
'When my company was in danger of failure to honor a check, I won the first prize in a public lottery. I got very happy. I got in to the seventh heaven. But .... I left the ticket of the first prize somewhere on my way to a bank, and was driven to despair, was thrown into the hell.
On that night, Ghost Train brought the ticket to me!! What a surprise! What a pleasure!
My company and I are relieved by the Ghost Train. I don't know how to express my thanks to the Ghost Train,' said Gorobei.
It's a heartwarming story, isn't it?
Key Word
ANIMISM
Once upon a time in Japan, there was a kind of animism.
It was believed that inorganic substances such as a broom, a bedding, sandals and etc. came to be ghost after long years.