{"id":20620,"date":"2018-02-13T18:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2018-03-14T19:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T19:50:19","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-hiroshima-3908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20620","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Hiroshima 3908"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today our world tour lands in Japan with an image taken on the Hiroshima Electric Railway more commonly known as Hiroden.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This system is the longest tram network in Japan with the first lines opening on 18th June 1910. Today there are six inner-city lines with eight routes with a total distance of 19km. 271 trams are in the fleet and it is said to also be the busiest tram service in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>As for the tram in the picture this is <strong>3908<\/strong> an articulated tram running a service on route 2 to Hiroshima Station (as the bi-lingual destination blind makes it nice and clear!). The tram was captured on camera on 24th March 2017 at Tockaichi Machi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21007\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21007\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21007\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21007\" title=\"3908-ib\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3908-ib-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3908-ib-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3908-ib-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/3908-ib.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ian Buck<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our world tour lands in Japan with an image taken on the Hiroshima Electric Railway more commonly known as Hiroden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21009,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions\/21009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}