Japan’s leading railway operator Tokyu Corporation announced on Monday that starting Friday, it will run all its eight lines solely on solar and other renewable energy, making it the first Japanese railway company to do so.
Tokyu runs eight lines in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture, totaling around 105 kilometers of rail track. The company announced that it will purchase “non-fossil certificates” for electricity used on all of its lines, effectively reducing the company's carbon dioxide emissions to zero.
