https://tabiris.com/archives/jrlte2025-gw/Golden Week 2025 limited express ridership stats are up
>Kuroshio surges 23% compared to last yearArticle says it's because of Adventure World in Shirahama(Wakayama prefecture) announcing they will return all 4 of their great pandas to China in late June.
>in raw numbers the winners are Chuo line limited expresses(Azusa/Kaiji) followed by Joban line (Hitachi/Tokiwa)>same as last year but raw numbers did go up 8% and 12% respectively.>Haruka 13% up because of the expo>Yakumo down 17% after last year's boom caused by introduction of 273 series, and possibly also due to retirement of 381 series which had more seats>Fujisan(the JR Central/Odakyu train from Shinjuku to Gotemba, not to be mistaken for other similarly named trains) down 20% with no explanation given.I tried to look further into it and I found this blogpost
https://noritetsu46.hatenablog.com/entry/2025/05/04/113000The poster has taken that train(before GW despite the post date) and apparently people use it as yet another limited express for the Odakyu portion, but then from Hadano(last stop before it goes off to the Gotemba line) it was literally just the poster in the entire car 1, and one person in car 2. Later the post goes on about the expressway buses, available every 30 or 60 minutes from Busta Shinjuku, which provide silmilar travel time for a 2/3rds of the price due to Gotemba being right on the Tomei Expressway.
