Japan has an entire train station run by cats. No, seriously. At Wakayama Electric Railway’s Kishi Station, a stray calico cat named Tama became stationmaster in 2007. The tiny rural line was close to collapse. Then Tama arrived wearing a little stationmaster hat. Tourists flooded in. The railway reportedly earned over ¥1 billion in economic impact. After Tama passed away in 2015, she was honored with a Shinto-style funeral attended by thousands. Today, successor cats still “work” at the station quietly greeting passengers. Most countries would turn this into a loud mascot campaign. Japan turned it into a peaceful daily ritual in a sleepy countryside town. And somehow… it worked. 🇯🇵