How many people use Tokyo’s rail network each day?

Cities hard Data from 2023

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Answer in journeys. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

40,000,000 journeys

Roughly 40M.

Tokyo’s rail network handles around 40 million passenger journeys a day. Shinjuku station alone processes 3.5 million people daily — more than the entire population of Madrid, through one station.

Where this number comes from

Source Tokyo Metropolitan Government transport statistics
Figure refers to 2023
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Unit journeys

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