Tokushima: World's 1st Dual Mode Vehicles Bids to Become Savior of Declining Railway Trips; Hopes Aboard Unique Vehicle

KAIYO, Tokushima — “A world first drives in this town,” reads a banner at the Awakainan Bunkamura cultural complex in Kaiyo, Tokushima Prefecture. The town is the starting point of a transport service that uses dual-mode vehicles (DMVs), which can run on both roads and railway tracks.