抄録
The use of railways purely for transportation in tourism has changed in recent years with an increase riding railways for pleasure. The number of the everyday railway users is decreasing in many areas, except for the metropolitan areas. There are many places where the continued of use route are in danger of closing down.
For example, district of Boso-Peninsula in Chiba-prefecture a line there local railways, Isumi-Rrailways, and the Kominato-Railways are danger of closing.
In this report, I examine the tourist trains of the Isumi-Railways and Kominato-Railways identifying their influence and problems.
As a result of local investigative and interviews conducted with various public institutions including the Chiba-prefecture the local governments, I was able to present my result in a formal hearing. The results of the hearing were that the state wanted to make a plan to sell and at trach those tourists without vehicles.
In response tourist facilities are active in their efforts to increase tourist numbers. At present, there is a lack of contact infrastructure. However, this is currently being addressed.
