Commuting time of workers in Japan, 2011

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications conducts surveys of people's "time use" every 5 years. The latest survey was taken in 2011.

Many workers in the Greater Tokyo take much time to commute to work. But the average time of statistics tells "commuting time is not so long". Because the statistics include data of weekends and part-timers who work near their homes. To see more realistic figure, I picked up one data "commuting time of working husbands who has under 6 years-old kid(s)". 

According to it, residents in the Greater Tokyo (Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo regions) consume much time for commuting relatively. Nara is a suburb of the big city Osaka. 

Please see also another article Commuting Time of Workers in Tokyo. It tells the average time is 58 minutes (one-way) in the Greater Tokyo. I think those stats are more realistic to my personal impression.

Figure: Average commuting time (round trip) of working husbands who has under 6 years-old kid(s), in 2011

	round trip time (min)
Average	57
Hokkaido	40
Aomori	31
Iwate	46
Miyagi	51
Akita	46
Yamagata	40
Fukushima	39
Ibaraki	44
Tochigi	47
Gunma	52
Saitama	76
Chiba	75
Tokyo	66
Kanagawa	90
Niigata	28
Toyama	39
Ishikawa	44
Fukui	38
Yamanashi	47
Nagano	46
Gifu	42
Shizuoka	42
Aichi	63
Mie	55
Shiga	42
Kyoto	56
Osaka	61
Hyogo	59
Nara	70
Wakayama	41
Tottori	33
Shimane	38
Okayama	52
Hiroshima	40
Yamaguchi	38
Tokushima	42
Kagawa	41
Ehime	34
Kochi	46
Fukuoka	44
Saga	37
Nagasaki	36
Kumamoto	43
Oita	37
Miyazaki	32
Kagoshima	36
Okinawa	41

Source is Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/Xlsdl.do?sinfid=000014895587

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