 Ticket offices at JR stations equipped with MARS terminals are called , selling tickets for all JR Group trains with reserved seats beginning one month prior to the ride.The MARS-1 system was created by Mamoru Hosaka, Yutaka Ohno, and others at the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute (now the Railway Technical Research Institute), and was built in 1958.It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains.