Number of passengers carried via JR Shinkansen in Japan FY 2022, by railway line
In the fiscal year 2022, Japan Railways' Tokaido Shinkansen high-speed railway line carried around 133.61 million passengers, making it the most-traveled Shinkansen in Japan. Its traffic increased by 55.9 percent year on year. The Tokaido Shinkansen runs from Tokyo to Osaka and is named after the historical road taking the same route along Japan's eastern seacoast to connect the country's two most-populated regions.