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Photograph or image of Tama: Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , no. 22 . ( 武蔵国 多摩川 )

Pet Garden

Tama

A Memory Realm virtual pet garden honoring Tama, remembered for Stationmaster cat, Japanese railway, Public memorial.

1999 - 2015Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan
Photograph or image of Tama: Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , no. 22 .
Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji , no. 22 . Katsushika Hokusai, Unknown source Unknown source, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Tama Is Remembered

Tama is remembered for stationmaster cat, japanese railway, public memorial. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this cat remains part of animal, cultural, scientific, or public memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Pet Garden in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm pet garden turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D pet garden connected to Tama.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan is used as a broad spatial reference for this pet garden because it is connected to Tama's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Tama may mean:

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

Photos

Photograph or image of Tama: Tama , the stationmaster of Kishi Station, Wakayama Electric Railway, located in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan

Tama , the stationmaster of Kishi Station, Wakayama Electric Railway, located in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan

Sanpei at Japanese Wikipedia, Own work Transferred from Japanese Wikipedia; ja:画像:Station-Master Tama.JPG transferred to Commons by User:Howcheng using CommonsHelper ., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Photograph or image of Tama: Tama , the stationmaster of Kishi Station, Wakayama Electric Railway, located in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan. She is called "Super st

Tama , the stationmaster of Kishi Station, Wakayama Electric Railway, located in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan. She is called "Super stationmaster" and wears a decoration of "Wakayama

Takobou, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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Photograph or image of Tama: This train, run by the Wakayama Electric Railway, is dedicated to Tama Super Station Master, a cat who works at the Kishi station (

This train, run by the Wakayama Electric Railway, is dedicated to Tama Super Station Master, a cat who works at the Kishi station (the terminus of the Kishikawa Line.) Tama Densha

Jody McIntyre from Montreal, Canada, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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