9,321 Japanese stations light up by year — and the map turns into rice paddies and rivers (jivx.com)
The data is Wikidata coordinates and opening dates; 96 stations were dropped for missing data. Between 1900 and 1930 'the map erupts'.
The submitter dropped a piece of trivia better than the viz: every Japanese station has its own stamp, and you can collect them in a notebook as a travel diary.
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