Toden Arakawa Line km trip in 50 minutes. The gauge is . The line is fully double-track, and draws 600 V electrical supply. Two Toden Arakawa trams (one in revenue service, the other undergoing brake testing) collided on June 13, 2006 near the Minowabashi terminus, injuring 27 people. The Toden Arakawa Line operates in northern and eastern Tokyo outside the main tourist areas. The terminus at Minowabashi is near the historical site of Edo's red-light district Yoshiwara which features a completely covered shopping street, several blocks long, in the once common "Ameyoko" style (a shōtengai). In Haruki Murakami's novel "Norwegian Wood", protagonist Toru
Shizuka Arakawa Slutskaya. Cohen fell twice during her long program, leaving the door open to the other leaders. Arakawa won the free program, skating to Vanessa Mae's Violin Fantasy on Puccini's Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. She performed an Ina Bauer and then did a three jump combination. "Ina Bauer" became a household word in Japan as a result. Although she had planned two triple-triple combinations for the free skate, she did not perform them, doing instead a triple Lutz-double loop and a triple salchow-double toe loop combinations. Arakawa earned a total combined score of 191.34 points, almost eight points ahead of the