News Removed from the last Keikyu Kawasaki Station platform at the station that disappears from the Kanto area

"Patapata" at Keikyu Kawasaki Station platform (provided by Keihin Kyuko Electric Railway)

　The "flap -type train departure guide display device" (commonly known as Patapata), which is installed at the Kawasaki Station platform of Keihin Kyuko Electric Railway (Keikyu) connecting Tokyo and Misakiguchi, Haneda Airport, etc., is scheduled for mid -February. I will retire according to the renewal work. [Photo] Patapata Keikyu, which is operating at the platform of Hankyu Okamoto Station, will hold various retirement commemorative events such as "Night Tour" at the end of the use of Patapata. Commemorative events are held due to abolition of trains, stations, and routes, but it is unusual for events to be held extensively by removing station equipment. "Patapata" is a display that literally makes a character panel spinning and notifies the destination. In addition to the station, the airport and the popular song program "The Best Ten" broadcast on the TBS system were also known as the board that displayed the best 10. The visibility was good and the abundant display was possible, and when the Kawasaki Station was introduced on December 25, 1986, it was the mainstream of the guide display board. In recent years, switching to the LED type has progressed, and it has become one of the endangered species. At Kawasaki Station, five platforms updated in 2001 are running on Line 4-7. According to the company's public relations and marketing rooms, retirement was decided to have a service life. Voices on SNS and others rose on SNS that the only device that survived in Keikyu disappeared from the Kanto region. "I haven't checked if there is a fluffy in Kanto in the Kanto region, but I think it's quite rare," said the company's public relations and marketing room representatives. It was said that nothing was decided after the removal, such as the company's museum and Keikyu Museum. Limited to 20 people held after departure from the last train on February 4th, in the "Special Night Tour" (18,000 yen) with accommodation, after the officials explained the mechanism of the popping, and now we are now using it according to the request of the participants. It is said to display destinations and trains that are gone. After the announcement on the 12th, there seems to be a great response, including "various voices" (public relations and marketing rooms), including inquiries and regrettable voices. He disappears from Kanto, but is still active in Kansai's private railway. He makes noon day and night at Kintetsu and Hankyu platforms. A fluffy retro feeling of LED and liquid crystal display. In the Keikyu Public Relations and Marketing Room, the formal removal date is not decided, saying, "There is no plan for the day of the removal. Before the end of the operation, the mania hurrys! (Yorozu -News, Yasuto Sugita)

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