Hokkaido Shinkansen has nearly 30,000 passengers in 1st 3 days

Hokkaido Shinkansen has nearly 30,000 passengers in 1st 3 days

A businessman gets on a Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train at JR Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station on March 29, 2016. A total of about 29,700 people got on trains of the new line linking Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido with Tokyo in the first three days of its opening through March 28, according to Hokkaido Railway Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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