OTIS Horizontal Elevator /Hovair Transit Systems @Narita Airport Terminal 2, Chiba Japan

The system is made by Nippon Otis Elevator. It is technically (and legally) not a railway, but a horizontal elevator; cars are attached to a cable that moves them, like a funicular. These cars do not have wheels; instead, they float on a 0.2-millimetre layer of pressured air. This was the first use of such a system to be used in an airport, as well as the first in Japan. It is also the first cable-driven people mover in Japan.

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