Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train users up 5% on year over Golden Week holidays
During the period from April 25 to Tuesday, a total of 4.4 million passengers used the shinkansen bullet trains connecting the nation's capital and the commercial hub of Osaka in western Japan, according to JR Central.
A rise in visitors to the World Exposition in Osaka, which surpassed 1 million late last month, may have also encouraged more travelers to use shinkansen bullet trains, a company official said.
The number of international flight passengers, meanwhile, increased 14 percent from the previous year to 682,000, Japanese carriers said.
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