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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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.
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City of Yokohama. (June 20, 2022). Number of railway passengers in Japan's most populous cities in the fiscal year 2020 (in million passengers) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved March 02, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1318942/japan-number-railway-passengers-major-cities/
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City of Yokohama. (2022). Number of railway passengers in Japan's most populous cities in the fiscal year 2020 (in million passengers). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: March 02, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1318942/japan-number-railway-passengers-major-cities/
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