This statue is called Hachiko. The legend is that Hachiko was a stray dog, adopted by a college professor, who took the train to work every day. And every day at the same time, Hachiko would come to the train station to meet his master’s train. One day, the professor had a stroke on the way home from work, and died, never making it to the train station. Hachiko continued to come to that train station every day, for nine years, to meet his friend’s train. The statue is at the Shabuya station in Tokyo