Sources, licences & attribution

Every figure comes from an identified official dataset, retrieved on the date shown and displayed under the licence named here.

ODPT data notice

The source of the public transportation data on this site is the Public Transportation Open Data Center.

The data are based on data provided by the public transportation operators.

The accuracy and integrity of the data are not guaranteed.

Please do not contact the public transportation operators directly regarding the content of this site.

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Independence

Urban Rail Atlas is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or guaranteed by any railway operator, the Association for Open Data of Public Transportation, or the Public Transportation Open Data Center.

Datasets used

Upstream datasets, their licences, and when each was retrieved
ProviderDatasetLicenceRetrieved
Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (via ODPT)Passenger Survey of ToeiCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (via ODPT)Route information of Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan GovernmentCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (via ODPT)Station information of Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan GovernmentCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)National Land Numerical Information — Administrative Areas (Greater Tokyo)Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — MLIT N03
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)National Land Numerical Information — Station Passenger CountsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — MLIT S12
Tokyo Metro (via ODPT)Passenger Survey of Tokyo MetroPublic Transportation Open Data Basic License
Tokyo Metro (via ODPT)Route information of Tokyo MetroPublic Transportation Open Data Basic License
Tokyo Metro (via ODPT)Station information of Tokyo MetroPublic Transportation Open Data Basic License

Required credits

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
東京都交通局・公共交通オープンデータ協議会
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — MLIT N03
Uses the 2026 MLIT National Land Numerical Information Administrative Areas dataset for private station classification.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — MLIT S12
“National Land Numerical Information (Station Passenger Counts)” (MLIT), 2024 edition, filtered and transformed by Urban Rail Atlas; CC BY 4.0.
Public Transportation Open Data Basic License
The source of the data on this site is the Public Transportation Open Data Center.

What this site does not publish

This site displays Tokyo Metro figures but does not publish them as data: there is no bulk download and no data endpoint, because the Public Transportation Open Data Basic License prohibits redistributing the data in a form reusable by a third party. The Toei figures shown here are published by the Public Transportation Open Data Center under CC BY 4.0 and can be obtained from it directly.

Display identity methodology

Reviewed community and editorial display names and service-qualified passenger numbers. They are separate from MLIT statistical provenance and do not change observations.

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