[mulmen]

I’m not sure what I am looking at. I see a number going up but the methodology is missing and analysis is lacking.

Has Japan ever closed a railway station?

Are the 1872 stations the first ever in Japan?

Is this a plot of all stations ever constructed or just the ones that still exist?

Has the number of stations ever gone down?

What events are corollated with building booms and what direction does the arrow of causality point?