West Japan Railway (JR West) has recently unveiled what they claim to be the world's first 3D-printed ... will "prove the model's viability" for broader use. As the station prepares to open ...

Its wooden station was due for replacement, and the replacement could be smaller. The replacement, it turned out, could also be a trial for industrial-scale 3D-printing of custom rail shelters.

West Japan Railway Company has built the world’s first 3D-printed train station in Arida ... ageing population and declining workforce, this model may offer a solution to staffing and ...

Train stations don’t usually make headlines. But in Japan, one tiny building has managed to do just that. In a small rural ...

West Japan Railway Company — or JR West — has just announced that it will build what it says will be the world’s first 3D-printed train ... “Using the station building to be constructed this time as a ...

Japan has made a breakthrough in public infrastructure by building the world’s first 3D-printed railway station. The Hatsushima Station ... Japan’s unique model of privatised railways has been key to ...

The Japanese architecture studio and manufacturer behind this 3D-printed train station show how to build both beautifully and ...

The new station’s components were 3D-printed elsewhere and assembled on site last month, in what the railway’s operators say is a world first. It may look more like a shelter than a station ...

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a 3D-printed railway station in Japan. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. It was built from four prefabricated parts – a roof ...

has unveiled what it claims to be the world's first 3D-printed train station building. Located at Hatsushima Station on the JR Kisei Main Line in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, the project merges ...