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| - The country's road network consists of 1.3 million kilometers of paved roads. Traffic drives on the right side on East Asian roads. Roads are either paid for and operated by prefectural governments' revenues, or operated by private companies and paid for through tolls. Several passenger rail operators compete in transportation markets nationwide. The largest of these, the state-owned Federation Rail, holds a 66% share of intercity passenger rail traffic, and owns and operates all of the nation's high-speed rail lines. There are fourteen high-speed rail lines, connecting all of the nation's major cities. There are 283 civil airports in the East Asian Federation. Of these, the largest, Tokyo International Airport, is also Asia's busiest airport, and serves mainly domestic flights. The five busiest international gateways are Incheon International Airport (Seoul/Incheon area), Narita International Airport (Tokyo area), North Capital International Airport (Seogyeong area), Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei/Taoyuan area), and Kansai International Airport (Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto area).
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