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Busiest railway station in the world
Record
1,163,700,000 passengers
- Record holder
- Shinjuku Station
What to remember
Over 2023-2024, Shinjuku Station in Tokyo handled 1,163,700,000 passengers across all modes. No railway station in the world sees more.
That total combines 929.2 million commuter rail passengers and 234.5 million on rapid transit. The station has 16 platforms. In 2018, it was used by an average of 3.59 million people per day.
Straddling the Shinjuku and Shibuya special wards, it is the main hub linking central and eastern Tokyo with Western Tokyo. It is served by JR East, Keiō, Odakyū, Toei and Tokyo Metro lines, and has more than 200 entrances and exits spread over several floors.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of busiest railway stations” (revision used 1379182472). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: MaedaAkihiko, Photo licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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