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 | | This line, which has 16 intermediate stations, traverses the wealthiest Provinces of the centre of Japan, and among the numerous articles which it conveys to Kobe and Osaka are silk, tea, cotton, rice, wheat, wadding, and cotton goods. |
 | | The line was not commenced until June, 1882, but by July of the following year the trains were already running as far as Kumagai, which is 38 miles from the capital, and the line was completed to Takasaki this Spring, when the Emperor opened it in person. |
 | | Two other lines are in course of construction, the first running from Shinagawa, upon the line from Tokio to Yokohama, to Kawaguchi, and the other from Takasaki to Mayebashi, one of the principal centres of the silk trade. |
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