Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kench -mae Station is a monorail train station on the Chiba Urban Monorail located in Ch -ku in the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the terminal station for Line 1 of the Chiba Urban Monorail and is located 3.2 kilometers from the opposite terminus at Chiba Station. Kench -mae Station was opened on March 24, 1999. Kench -mae Station is an elevated station with two opposed side platforms serving two tracks; however, only Platform 1 is normally used. The station platforms are unattended. A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track.