Tokkyu Tanaka 3 Go

Details

• Title: 特急田中３号
• Title (romaji): Tokkyu Tanaka 3 Go
• Also known as: Tanaka Express 3 / Limited Express Tanaka 3
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Comedy, romance, friendship
• Episodes: 11
• Theme song: Yorokobi no Uta (Song of Joy) by KAT-TUN

Synopsis

After two years of preparation, Ichiro Tanaka finally enters a university disdained as a third-class one. Out of his ardent desire to become popular with girls, he by chance steps into the world of the railroad "otaku" (commonly called "tetsu"), getting deeply involved in the fascinating railroad world. This drama portrays Ichiro who, together with those lonely "tetsu" guys he meets there who "want to be popular so badly but are not," develops love and friendship and grows mature as a person. --TBS

Cast

• Tanaka Koki as Tanaka Ichiro
• Tsukamoto Takashi as Hanagata Kei
• Akiyama Ryuji as Momoyama Seiji
• Kuriyama Chiaki as Meguro Terumi
• Kato Rosa as Shibuya Kotone
• Hiraiwa Kami as Kojima Riko
• Kaito Ken as Makita Joji
• Okouchi Nanako as Kato Miharu
• Sakamaki Keisuke (坂巻恵介) as Kimura
• Minami Shuhei (南周平) as Sasaki
• Kimura Ryo as Tanaka Jiro
• Endo Kenichi as Tanaka Katsuji
• Saito Keiko as Tanaka Shizue
• Yoshiyuki Kazuko as Tanaka Haru
• Hirooka Yuriko as Momoyama Saori
• Omi Toshinori as Momoyama Makoto
• Sudo Kentaro (須藤謙太朗) as Momoyama Seitaro
• Toyooka Masumi as Izumi
• Hashimoto Jun as Master
• Takahashi Issei as Mishima Ken
• Nozuki Takahiro (野月貴弘) as Tetsu A
• Minamida Yusuke (南田裕介) as Tetsu B
• Tomikawa Kazuto (富川一人) as Tetsu C

Guests

• Takagi Maria (gokon, ep1)
• Tachibana Ayano (gokon, ep1)
• Yamaguchi Misa (山口美沙) (gokon, ep1)
• Tomikawa Kazuhito (ep1)
• Tanaka Subaru (田中彗) as Tanaka Ichiro as a child (ep1)
• Tanaka Juri (田中樹) as Tanaka Jiro as a child (ep1)
• Passion Yara as a worker (ep3-4)
• Manami (愛実) as Miki (ep3,4,8,9)
• Noguchi Seiko (野口聖古) as Hitomi (ep3,9)
• Takahashi Hitomi as Meguro Keiko (ep3,9)
• Shitara Osamu as Terumi's father (ep3,8)
• Takahashi George (高橋ジョージ) as George (ep3,10)
• Harada Fumiaki (原田文明) as Professor Yamakawa (ep4)
• Ato Kai as Professor Fujii (ep5)
• Kikuchi Kinya as Kodera (ep5)
• Denden as Maegi (ep7)
• Kinami Haruka as Yoshie (ep7)
• Kobayashi Katsuya as Iwashiro (ep7)
• Nakagawa Reiji (中川家礼二) as Shimaoka (ep8-10)
• Kamenashi Kazuya as Shibahara Toru (ep9)
• Yokomi Hirohiko (横見浩彦) as Tetsu (ep10)
• Kimura Yuko (木村裕子) as Tetsuko (ep10)
• Matsumoto Jun