List of busiest railway stations explained

This is a list of railway stations serving more than 100 million passengers per year.

Country	City	Railway station	Passengers (millions per year)				Platforms	Sourced data year
			data-sort-type="number"	All modes	Rapid Transit	data-sort-type="number"			Commuter	data-sort-type="number"	Long distance
Japan	Tokyo	Shinjuku Station	1310^[1]				53	2018
Japan	Tokyo	Ikebukuro Station	989					2007
Japan	Tokyo	Shibuya Station	876^[2]					2004
Japan	Osaka	Ōsaka Station	854					2005
Japan	Yokohama	Yokohama Station	760					2013
France	Paris	Gare du Nord	244.7^[3] ^[4]	47.4	51.1		32	2019
Germany	Hamburg	Hamburg Hbf	^[5]	59.5	94.5		12	2019
Germany	Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt (Main) Hbf					29	2019
nowrap	United Kingdom	London	London Waterloo	177.1^[6]	82.9	94.2		24	2018–2019

Notes and References

1. Web site: Busiest station . 2023-01-30 . Guinness World Records . en-gb . July 14, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220714184259/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/busiest-station . live .
2. JR East 891,460 http://www.jreast.co.jp/passenger/index.html, Tokyu 414,833+680,395 Web site: 各駅乗降人員 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120603173313/http://www.tokyu.co.jp/railway/railway/west/gaiyou/joukou.html . 2012-06-03 . 2012-10-04., Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line 472,123+258,609 Web site: 東京メトロ｜企業情報｜データライブラリー . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080622044948/http://www.tokyometro.jp/corporate/data/jinin/index.html . 2008-06-22 . 2008-06-22., Keio 343,697 Web site: 京王グループ – Ir・企業情報 – 1日の駅別乗降人員 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080303220816/http://www.keio.co.jp/company/corporate/prospectus/traffic/railroading/passengers_getting_on_and_off/index.html . 2008-03-03 . 2009-10-28. Totals 3,061,117 million
3. Web site: SNCF Open Data — Fréquentation en gares. 2021-09-21. SNCF. Paris, France. ressources.data.sncf.com – SNCF OPEN DATA.
4. Web site: Trafic annuel entrant par station du réseau ferré 2019. 2021-09-21. RATP. Paris, France. Open Data RATP.
5. Web site: Verlässlichkeit des Schienenverkehrs an Knotenbahnhöfen . March 2021.
6. Web site: Estimates of station usage 2018–2019 . Office of Rail and Road ORR . London, UK . 10 June 2020 . 2021-12-27.