How to say "commuter" in Japanese

• コミューター
  nounThe English word taken straight into katakana; it means the same thing but is seldom the word you want — for a person who commutes, one of the Japanese-formed terms is the safer choice.
• 通勤者つうきんしゃ
  nounThe plain term for a person who commutes, normally to work; neutral and descriptive. It fits general statements and reports about people travelling to and from work each day.
  どの電車でんしゃも通勤つうきん者しゃでぎゅうぎゅう詰づめだった。↗

  The trains were jammed with commuters.
• 通勤客つうきんきゃく
  nounCommuters viewed as passengers, as on a railway; it also covers the 'season-ticket passenger' sense. You meet it in transport contexts, where the commuter is a customer of the line.

All three are less common ways to say 'commuter': 通勤者 is the neutral word for a person who commutes to work, 通勤客 treats commuters as railway passengers, including season-ticket passengers, and 「コミューター」 is the katakana borrowing.

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• コミューターcommuter
• 通勤者つうきんしゃcommuter
• 通勤客つうきんきゃくcommuter