Railway offers food for thought
Passengers can eat this Aoimori Railway Co. ticket. (Photo by Fumiaki Onishi/ The Asahi Shimbun)
Passengers in Aomori Prefecture have the chance to save train tickets from a memorable journey in a way far more intimate than sticking them in a scrapbook: Eat them.
Aoimori Railway Co. on Saturday began selling an edible ticket to celebrate the extension of its Metoki-Hachinohe Line further north to Aomori in December.
The ticket, priced at 1,500 yen ($18), is made of a Nanbu-senbei cracker, a Hachinohe specialty. Edible ink is used on the ticket, which is 10 centimeters in diameter.
The railway company, a joint public-private venture, "printed" 2,000 tickets, 47 of which were sold on the first day.
The crackers are good for about three months.
However, Itaru Seki, president of Aoimori Railway, said: "It's a commemorative ticket. I hope passengers will put it on display after riding our train."
The Aoimori Railway line will be extended when the Tohoku Shinkansen Line is lengthened to cover Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori in December. Services between Hachinohe and Aomori stations on East Japan Railway Co.s Tohoku Line will be taken over by Aoimori Railway.
青森新幹線では食べられるチケットを販売した。初日には1500円で二千枚売られた。
感想
食べられる切符食べてみたいです。
