Tama is the station’s hero, and she’s awesome.
This is the Kishi Station located on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan. It's very special.
Hint: It's shaped like a cat!
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And this is Tama. She was born in 1999 and lived near the Kishi Station with a few other strays.
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The station was almost shut down in 2004 due to financial problems.
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The Wakayama Electric Railway destaffed all stations on the Kishigawa Line in order to cut costs. The informal stationmaster at the time, Toshiko Koyama, had "adopted" Tama a few years earlier, was named the stationmaster in 2006 under those cost-cutting measures.
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