Number of railway passengers in Japan's major cities FY 2020

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Alexandru Arba
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Jan 6, 2023
In the fiscal year 2020, the 23 wards of Tokyo in Japan had more than six billion railway passengers, 2.4 billion of which used rapid transit. The City of Osaka had the second-most railway passenger traffic among Japan's major cities.

Number of railway passengers in Japan's most populous cities in the fiscal year 2020 (in million passengers)

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Statistic: Number of railway passengers in Japan's most populous cities in the fiscal year 2020 (in million passengers)

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Release date

June 2022

Region

Japan

Survey time period

fiscal year 2020; the Japanese fiscal years start on April 1 of the stated year and end on March 31 of the follwing year

Supplementary notes

*Figures of the Japan Railways Companies represent the product of the daily average passenger number multiplied by the number of days in a year. Including data obtained at zero-staff stations.

New transportation systems refer to railway systems such as automated guideway transit or monorails.

Figures have been rounded.

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