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The Tokyo Toden network, currently branded as the Tokyo Sakura Tram, is a streetcar network operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that focuses on transportation.

The company's roots date back to 1903 during the time when the Tokyo Horse-drawn Railway existed; said railway changed its motive power to electricity and the Tokyo Electric Railway was formed, with the Tokyo Urban Railway and a second Tokyo Electric Railway based in another part of Tokyo forming shortly after; the three companies merged to become the Tokyo City Streetcar system, which would later become the Tokyo Toden.

Once a sprawling network of 41 routes, the largest of any tram system in Japan at the time of its peak, a seven-stage financial restructuring that took place from 1967 to 1972 closed many of the routes due to increased reliance on automobiles, with the remaining routes being consolidated into one single line. Today, the line, the Toden Arakawa Line, remains one of only two streetcar lines in the entirety of Tokyo, and is the only remaining line from what was once this massive streetcar network.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation also owns the Toei Subway subway system.

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Tokyo Toden streetcars
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Withdrawn Ex-Oji Electric Tram Company 100 • 150160170 • 200
Ex-Joto Electric Railway 1 • 10 • 20 • 30
Ex-Tokyo City Streetcar 1 (gen 1) • 251 • 400700 • 821 • 1000 • 1001 • 1101 • 1200 • 1121 • 1371 • 1400 • 1471 • 1653 • 1854 • 1954 • 2200 • 2501 • 3000 (gen 1)4000 (gen 1)5000 • Otsu 1 • Otsu 10 • Otsu 100 • Otsu 1000 • Otsu 1200
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