People heading for New Year's holidays crowd trains, airports

People spending the New Year's holidays in their hometowns or elsewhere crowded train stations, airports and roads in Tokyo and other parts of Japan on Saturday.On the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, the occupancy rate of unreserved seats hit 180 percent when the day's first train departed Tokyo for Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, at 6 a.m., according to the operator of the train."I look forward to seeing my cousin after a while and eating New Year dishes prepared by my grandmother," Yuina Fujita, an elementary school girl of Tokyo's Suginami Ward, said at Tokyo Station before heading for Kagawa Pref…READ FULL ARTICLE