Travelers crowd stations as Japan's 5-day Silver Week holiday ends

Train stations across Japan were crowded Wednesday as people returned from trips and hometown visits as the five-day Silver Week autumn holiday, the first such stretch in 11 years, came to an end.Tokyo Station was packed with travelers, with Kokoha Mieda, a 9-year-old fourth grader from Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, saying she took her first trip with her 54-year-old grandmother without her parents.Although they were forced to stay indoors one day due to the effects of Typhoon Dujuan, the season's 25th, Mieda said she enjoyed visiting Harajuku with a cousin living in Tokyo and "e…READ FULL ARTICLE