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Japan's First Railway: 29 Kilometers That Changed a Country
日本で最初の鉄道 ― 国を変えた29キロ
1872年、新橋と横浜の間を日本初の列車が走りました。わずか29キロの鉄道が、その後の日本をどう変えたのかを読んでみましょう。
On October 14, 1872, a steam train left Shimbashi in Tokyo and arrived in Yokohama about 53 minutes later. It was the first railway in Japan, and the journey of just 29 kilometers a new .
At the time, Japan was changing . The new Meiji government wanted to build a modern country, and it saw railways as that plan. Because Japan had no experience with railways, it invited engineers from Britain and brought locomotives from there .
The chief engineer was a young Briton named Edmund Morel. He encouraged Japan to train its own engineers foreign experts forever. Sadly, he died in 1871 and never saw the first train run.
Part of the line was built on a long over the sea near Takanawa. For many years, people thought it had been lost, but in 2019 workers building a new station discovered its .
Less than a hundred years after the first train, Japan opened the Tokaido Shinkansen in 1964. Today, October 14 is celebrated as Railway Day, how much those first 29 kilometers changed the country.
理解度チェック（4問）
1. 最初の列車は、新橋から横浜までどのくらいかかりましたか？
2. エドモンド・モレルは、最初の列車が走るのを見る前に亡くなった。
3. 2019年に見つかったものは何ですか？
4. この記事の内容に最も合うものは？
最後まで読んで、理解度チェックに答えると「読み終わった」になります（0 / 5 段落）
