JR Central has less revenue but double the profit (29.4%), overwhelmingly from the Tokaido Shinkansen (92% of its transportation revenue!)
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Furthermore, JR Kyushu has made an extraordinary effort to distinguish itself on the basis of luxurypic.twitter.com/9104gAbY2U
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The upshot of which is that many trains in Kyushu are tourist attractions in their own right, so visitors make up a huge share of ridership
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All that--side businesses, luxury trains, and HSR connections to busier places--is what it takes for a rural rail company to stay solvent
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