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2015考研英语阅读集中练：Transport in Japan
THE world's busiest train route, and one of the busiest air routes, is between Tokyo andOsaka, Japan's two biggest metropolitan areas.On that corridor, the shinkansen, as Japan's bullet trains are known, were born in 1964.
They whizz 120,000 passengers a day smoothly from one place to another, on trains thatleave every ten minutes.
Although humans, not robots, are at the controls, the average delay is a miraculous 36seconds.
To take all those passengers by air would require 667 aircraft, each with 180 seats, or fivetimes Japan's fleet of Boeing 737s, estimates Macquarie, an investment bank.
Undeterred, between March and August three low-cost airlines will have started operations inJapan.
It would be a miracle if they could help hammer down train and plane fares in Japan, whichare excruciating.
For example, a one-way shinkansen ticket from Tokyo to Osaka costs ￥14,000 ($170), andthere are no discounts for return fares or for booking early.
But compared with Europe and other parts of Asia, where budget airlines have quicklygained market share, in Japan the low-cost model is expected to take time to take off.
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