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
Hiromu Arakawa Rees Brennan. In April 2011, Arakawa began a new series called "Silver Spoon" in Shogakukan's "Weekly Shōnen Sunday". Rather than writing another fantasy series like "Fullmetal Alchemist", Arakawa wanted to challenge herself by trying a more realistic story with "Silver Spoon". It quickly rose among Shogakukan's best-selling titles and an anime series by A-1 Pictures began airing in July 2013. Also in July 2013 she began her manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's "The Heroic Legend of Arslan" series of novels in Kodansha's "Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine". Arakawa states that Suihō Tagawa, the author of "Norakuro", is the "root of [her] style