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What is the significance of the flooded train station, it is a recurring theme. This one, although there are piles of rubble on the platform and it is overgrown with weeds, vines and grass, the lights still work including the signalling? The overhead wires to power the train also abruptly end at the end of the platform and there appears to be no power poles to continue the run, nor a third rail.
Your question caused me to look over in tvtropes to see if they had a trope for it. For the first time I can remember I couldn't find one there. But have wondered the same thing ever since I first saw Spirited Away.

I would say the overriding giest has to do with the Japanese experience of disaster and coping with it. In anime we see not just floods but wars and fires, explosions and windstorms and earthquakes that have wiped out large regions which were abandoned instead of rebuilt. However flooding seems to be special to Japan and it shows not only in anime but also in their civic works which a lot of which has to do with controlling water. So you see a lot of seawalls and they have dammed more than 95% of all their rivers. In their history much of their fertile lowlands were always subject to flooding which is good for cultivating rice but not so much for building permanent buildings and train systems.

In this picture, as with many like it, the artist appears to be appreciating the esthetic the water brings to the scene which would likely be rather dreary without it. It is hard to say if the station is simply in disrepair or actually abandoned or, for that matter, what purpose it currently serves. The dead tree suggests the flooding is more or less permanent and the fact that the girls have no shoes probably means they had to wade to get there.

As for the train itself, it was probably gas or diesel powered.
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