Abstract:This essay focuses on how land use mix quantitatively impacts urban rail transit ridership at stationlevel by nonlinear regression model. Distancedecay weight and weight of population in mutual service area assigned to each station are used to weigh population within service area of station. Then ridership divided by weighted population is taken as dependent variable to analyze what is the relationship between land use mix and ridership at stationlevel. Least square support vector machine is the ideal model to do the above thing. Finally, data of 109 stations in Tokyo, Japan are taken as case study, result of which shows land use mix has a little influence on ridership at stationlevel and meanwhile, employment/inhabitants within service area of station has a significant influence on ridership at stationlevel. So, employment/inhabitants should substitute land use mix and be taken as key predictor for ridership at stationlevel.