ひかり (列車)

Quality:

Hikari - Japanese high-speed train service. Article “ひかり (列車)” in Japanese Wikipedia has 55.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 41 references and 29 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in Japanese version.

Since the creation of article “ひかり (列車)”, its content was written by 184 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia (6871^st place) and edited by 318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 457 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 1071 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #89 in September 2003
• Global: #4382 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #7385 in March 2008
• Global: #65371 in March 2008

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Hikari (train)		57.228
2	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		55.7605
3	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		55.7339
4	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		36.967
5	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		21.494
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		10.403
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		4.841

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		1 710 402
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		803 123
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		153 319
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		42 841
5	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		13 633
6	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		11 431
7	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		8 220

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		5 696
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		4 296
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		1 356
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		142
5	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		92
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		53
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		23

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		184
2	English (en) Hikari (train)		68
3	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		33
4	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		21
5	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		6
6	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		3

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hikari (train)		2
2	Korean (ko) 히카리 (열차)		1
3	French (fr) Hikari (Shinkansen)		0
4	Japanese (ja) ひかり (列車)		0
5	Portuguese (pt) Hikari (Shinkansen)		0
6	Thai (th) ฮิการิ (ขบวนรถไฟ)		0
7	Chinese (zh) 光號列車		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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