Japanese trains are world-famous for their punctuality, but sometimes things go wrong.
JR West has apologized after one of the company's trains left the station 25 seconds early.
According to Japan Today, the conductor thought the train at Notogawa Station in Shiga Prefecture would depart at 7:11 a.m. instead of the scheduled departure of 7:12 a.m. on a Friday morning.
After closing the train doors, he realized his mistake. But when he looked out onto the platform, he didn't see any passengers and let the train roll away, 25 seconds too early.
But it turned out that there were some people who were going to take the train, and one of them complained to a train conductor. In a press release, the train operator apologized, saying that ”the significant inconvenience we caused our customers was truly inexcusable.”.
Source: TT
