The Shibayama Railway Company, Ltd. (芝山鉄道株式会社, Shibayama Tetsudō kabushiki-gaisha) is a third-sector railway company in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It operates Japan's shortest narrow-gauge railway line, the 2.2 km (1.4 mi) Shibayama Railway Line between Higashi-Narita Station and Shibayama-Chiyoda Station, largely underneath Narita International Airport. Although the Shibayama Railway company is an independent operator, the line functionally resembles an extension of the Keisei Higashi-Narita Line, as all trains provide through service to lines owned by Keisei. The line is also operated using equipment and crew leased from Keisei, IC cards are not accepted on this route, unlike most railway lines operated by Keisei. Most Shibayama Railway trains provide local service to Keisei Narita Station past Higashi-Narita, and express trains operate during rush hours through the Keisei Line from Haneda Airport Terminal 1·2 Station. The Shibayama Railway leases its rolling stock from the Keisei Electric Railway company. The company has leased a Keisei 3500 series trainset since 2013. In 2022, the train's wrapping was changed to use red and green stripes, resembling the former 3600 series used on the line until 2013. During the time 3600 series was used by the Shibayama Railway, the train color was changed from Keisei's blue and red color scheme to red and green, the scheme used in the company's logo. This change was reverted when it was returned to Keisei. Reasons for DTG to make this route: 1. The full route is only 2.2km in length, so even they can't cut this one short. This would make it one of the few "complete" routes in TSW6.* 2. The route only uses one type of train, so people can't complain about the lack of included rolling-stock, and DTG don't have to "do work". 3. Most of the route is underground, so DTG don't have to "do work". 4. Nobody will notice that DTG is using AI to place scenery assets, and screwing it up completely, because it is very dark underground... and placing assets and scenery manually would involve "doing work". 5. The regular timetable is one train every 40 minutes, so DTG don't have to put in much effort to keep it realistic. Which is good, because that would involve "doing work". 6. DTG have the Airbus licence, and this route runs beneath an airport, so at least the planes would be realistic.... but even if DTG don't have the Airbus licence anymore, the route is mostly underground. So "doing work" might be avoided completely here too. 7. DTG can still slap a £29.99 price tag in this route, because "it's a complete route and full timetable" * They'll still find a way to bugger it up.
More Japanese content would enliven TSW considerably. Sadly I don’t see it, with just one developer we know of working on content and seemingly bogged down still trying to finish Tadami.
