Transportation in Tokyo - Smart Transportation System
Tokyo could be the largest happening city in this world. Tokyo is comprised of 23 wards, with their unique and peculiar attributes. The foreigners visiting the city are easily awed by the expanse of the capital city of Tokyo and the seventeen million people who inhabit the city and out of which 5 million are daily commuters. However, Tokyo has an unparalleled transportation system and information resources that are visitor friendly. It is an intricate network. The best way to travel in Tokyo is to let the subway lead you on.
The primary transportation in Tokyo is the rail. This city has the most extensive railway network in the world. There are 101 trains serving Tokyo, and there are 18 more trains catering to Greater Tokyo area. So a total of 119 trains serving the whole Metropolitan area. If you search online, you can come across maps that give you an idea of the vast network of railway lines running up and down, all through Tokyo. The whole railway map is so vast that the operator builds his own map using the key points of transfer. The tourists are not shown the subway map only for the sake of keeping it simple.
The rails in Japan are always full and almost every time there is a hustle and bustle in the trains with people pushing their way in and out of the train. The railway lines, most of them, are owned privately but there are exceptions like the Toei lines running very dense and intricately. The commuter trains are used by at least 20 million people everyday and rail is used as the primary mode of transport. The Shinjuku station is one of the busiest railway stations in the world as millions of commuters use this railway platform daily. This is comparable to Germany which has ten million daily train commuters in the whole nation.
The largest railway company is the East Japan Railway Company in Tokyo. It runs through the area called the Greater Tokyo and the rest of Honshu Island. This also operates as the greatest railway network and the lines radiate to all around the city and reaches out to the suburbs. The main lines running are the Chuo lines, the Keihin Tohuko lines, the Chuo Line, the Sobu line and the Yokusuka, Tokaido and the Yokohama lines.
Outside the city there are lines called Tsurumi, Takasaki, Sagami, Nambu, Negishi, Ome, Masashino, Kawagoe, Joetsu, Joban, Itsukaichi and Hachiko. The Japan Railway company operates twenty three lines within the area of Greater Tokyo. JR also is a stockholder for the monorail in Tokyo.
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