Wearing a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway, this nine-year-old cat named "Tama" sits on a ticket gate at Kishi station in the city of Kinokawa, in Wakayama prefecture.

Railway officials credit the cat with helping to increase the number of passengers who travel along the Kishigawa line by 10 percent over the past year.

Dubbed the "stationmaster cat," the female tortoiseshell just showed up one day at the small unmanned station in Japan.

Railway Cat of Japan responsible for travel increase...........

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