MARS is the train ticket reservation system used by the Japan Railways Group companies and travel agencies in Japan. It was developed jointly by Hitachi Rail and the former Japanese National Railways,
A MR32-type MARS terminal at a JR ticket office in 2015
A Midori no Madoguchi ticket office at Himeji Station in 2009
Preserved MARS-1 mainframe at Railway Museum, Saitama
MR12W-type touchscreen terminal computer with thermal paper printer
Railway Technical Research Institute, or RTRI, is the technical research company under the Japan Railways group of companies.
MARS (ticket reservation system)
…sales counter'). The MARS-1 system was created by Mamoru Hosaka, Yutaka Ohno, and others at the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute (now the Railway Technical Research Institute), and was built in 1958. It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains, and entered service in February 1960, initially only providing…
Railway Technical Research Institute in Kokubunji, Tokyo
JR's first experimental magnetic levitation train, ML100, on display outside RTRI