Shinjuku remains JR East's busiest station in Tokyo

I was under the impression that more like 3 million people using Shinjuku station every day. Maybe these numbers don't include figures for the non-JR stations, or people just passing through?

@fxgai: Yeah I also thought that the numbers for Shinjuku were closer to 3-4 million per day. 750,000 per day wouldn't even make it the busiest in the world I don't think..

I think more than 6 million every day, as my reference from the busiest station in the world

Wikipedia confirms the 3+ million people figure, apparently a Guiness Record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Station

I believe the 3 million figure, or even more the 6 million figure. I use the station almost daily.

It seems people aren't reading the article properly:

Title: Shinjuku remains JR's busiest station in Tokyo

According to JR East, Shinjuku was No. 1 with an estimated 751,000 commuters using its lines each day.

We've already made this point.

Usually we consider Shinjuku Station to be not just the JR part, but interconnected the Odakyu Line, the Keio Line, Marunouchi Line, Oedo Line (am I forgetting any?), and as I understand it, this complex is the 3 million.

The number is just the amount of being entering the ticket gate at JR Shinjuku. It doesn't include the massive amounts of people transferring at Shinjuku or people using the separate metro system.

I lived on the Toei Shinjuku line and let me tell you - it was hell. Thankfully, I rarely had to take it all the way to Shinjuku Station, but my god was it a punish! Late almost every day!

OK, interesting, but is this news?

The reason why Shibuya was knocked off from the top three is because renovation at Odakyu Kita-Senjyu station moving it two stories underground. People who use to make transfer from Kita-Senjyu station had changed their commuting pattern and switched their transit station to Yoyogi Uehara and Shinjyuku.

Besides the various JR lines, you have the Keio main and Keio New line, the Toei Shinjuku line, the Oedo Line has two stations (Shinjuku and Shinjuku Nishiguchi station) in the Shinjuku Station area, Marunouchi Line, main Odakyu Lines, and the nearby Seibu Shinjuku Station a new minutes walk to the north.