{"id":149436,"date":"2022-10-26T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T01:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=149436&lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-26T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T01:38:24","slug":"nishi-kyushu-shinkansen-after-first-month","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/nishi-kyushu-shinkansen-after-first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen After First Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

One month has passed since the opening of the West Kyushu Shinkansen. During this period, the average train occupancy rate was 33%. The Western Kyushu Shinkansen, which cost 620 billion yen to build, opened on the 23rd of last month on a 66 km section between Takeo Onsen Station in Saga Prefecture and Nagasaki Station, making it the shortest Shinkansen line in Japan. At a press conference today, JR Kyushu’s president announced that the number of passengers for the first month was approximately 198,000, which was 2% higher than the number of passengers on the Isahaya-Nagasaki route of the conventional limited express train during the same period in 2018, before the Corona disaster. Meanwhile, 50% of the passengers were in reserved seats and 23% in unreserved seats, for an average occupancy of 33%. Looking at Shinkansen trains in Japan, the Hokkaido Shinkansen, which opened in 2016 between Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, had a one-month boarding rate of 27%, which means that this level was exceeded this time. <\/span>Source:<\/b> NHK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

EXTRA!<\/b> – watch our original video report on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen and Nagasaki City here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/mPgS9bGNdI8<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n