Phil Marshall, chief research officer at Tolaga Research, estimates the global number of base stations at 6.5 million sites, while Chinese equipment vendor Huawei puts the number at 7 million.
With an average of 3.5 million passing through its doors every day, Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, Japan, is the world’s busiest train station in terms of passenger throughput.
Shinjuku is made up of five stations – JR-East, Odakyu Electric Railway, Keio Corporation, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway – and serves as a connecting link between central Tokyo and its western suburbs. The site has ten platforms, serving 20 tracks and 12 train links.
There have been plans at various points in history to connect Shinjuku into the Shinkansen network of high-speed rail lines, and the 1973 Shinkansen Basic Plan, still in force, specifies that the station should be the southern terminus of the Joetsu Shinkansen line to Niigata, the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture. Credit Railway Technology, Wikipedia & Vidveo.
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