Abstract
The Kairakuen Garden in Mito that is famous in plum blossoms and is crowded with tourists in every spring. Related to the garden, various train service for tourists have been offered by the railway company since the middle of the Meiji era. The features of its development are; 1) use of exiting railroad by special ticket in the beginning and by temporary platform operation, 2) newspaper company played important role, 3) leadership of the local station manager. This paper refined its development process based on newspapers in local and Tokyo at that time. Although the garden was originally private, it became to a core of the tourism business of Mito, through a relationship development with the train service.
