Tokyo Subway Master Plan: Tokyo Metro System Designed 100 years ago.

The Japanese government developed Notification .56 on March 30, 1925, which was a railway urban development plan for the Tokyo Area . It was inspired in part by businessman Noritsugu Hayakawa’s, vision for a high speed underground railway network similar to London’s underground, which had already been operation for 52 years by that time.

Line 1 was 16.7 km long a partially resemble the Ginza Line
Line 2 was 16.1 km long and closely resembles the Hibiya Line
Line 3 was 15.4 km long and closely resembles the Toei Mita Line
Line 4 was 20.0 KM long and closely resembles the Marunouchi Line
Line 5 was 14.2 km long and closely resembles the Tozai Line

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