The number of JR limited express and Shinkansen users during the year-end and New Year holidays fell sharply to more than 30% of the previous year due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the lowest ever.
According to the summary of JR companies, the number of users from the 25th of last month to the 5th of this month during the year-end and New Year holidays is 32% on the Tokaido Shinkansen, 33% on the Tohoku Shinkansen, 29% on the Sanyo Shinkansen, etc. I am.
Looking at the number of users including limited express trains, the number of passengers was about 15 million in the previous year, but this year-end and New Year holidays were about 4.8 million, a significant drop of about 30%, and statistics for the entire JR Group It has become the least since 1991 when we started taking it.