Central Japan Railway Company
Appearance
Native name | 東海旅客鉄道株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō (lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway") kabushiki gaisha |
Company type | Public (KK) |
Industry | Private railway |
Predecessor | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
Founded | 1 April 1987 | , privatization of JNR
Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Tōkai region |
Key people | Shin Kaneko, Chairman Shunsuke Niwa, President |
Revenue | ¥1,672,295 million (2014)[3] |
¥506,598 million (2014)[3] | |
¥264,134 million (2014)[3] | |
Total assets | ¥5,217,982 million (2014)[3] |
Total equity | ¥2,020,196 million (2014)[3] |
Owner | Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%) |
Number of employees | 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)[2] |
Divisions | Conventional lines operations[4] Shinkansen operations[4] |
Subsidiaries | 39 group companies,[2] including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[5] |
Website | english.jr-central.co.jp/index.html |
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The Central Japan Railway Company[6] is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (Japanese: JR東海). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which the company chiefly operates.
JR Central's operational hub is
, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027.JR Central is Japan's most profitable and highest throughput high-speed-rail operator, carrying 138 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009, considerably more than the world's largest airline.[8] Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.[8]
JR Central is listed in the
JR West. It is also one of Nagoya's gosanke companies along with Toyota and the Chubu Electric Power Company.[citation needed
]
Lines
Shinkansen
- Tōkaidō Shinkansen: Tokyo Station—Shin-Ōsaka Station552.6 km
Conventional lines
- CA Tōkaidō Main Line: Atami Station—Maibara Station 341.3 km
- Branch line: Ōgaki Station—Mino-Akasaka Station 5.0 km
- CB Gotemba Line: Kōzu Station—Numazu Station 60.2 km
- CC Minobu Line: Fuji Station—Kōfu Station 88.4 km
- CD Iida Line: Toyohashi Station—Tatsuno Station 195.7 km
- CE Taketoyo Line: Ōbu Station—Taketoyo Station 19.3 km
- CF Chūō Main Line: Shiojiri Station—Nagoya Station 174.8 km
- CG Takayama Main Line: Gifu Station—Inotani Station 189.2 km
- CI Taita Line: Tajimi Station—Mino-Ōta Station 17.8 km
- CJ Kansai Main Line: Nagoya Station—Kameyama Station 59.9 km
- Kisei Main Line: Kameyama Station—Shingū Station 180.2 km
- Meishō Line: Matsusaka Station—Ise-Okitsu Station 43.5 km
- Sangū Line: Taki Station—Toba Station 29.1 km
- Jōhoku Line: Kachigawa Station—Biwajima Station 11.2 km (trains are operated by Tokai Transport Service Company, not JR Central)
Named train services
- Nanki (Nagoya - Shingū & Kii-Katsuura)
- Hida (Nagoya/Ōsaka - Takayama, Hida-Furukawa & Toyama)
- Shinano (Nagoya - Nagano & Hakuba)
- Mie (Nagoya - Iseshi & Toba)
- Fujikawa (Shizuoka - Kōfu)
- Inaji (Toyohashi - Iida)
- Izukyū-Shimoda & Shuzenji)
- Sunrise Seto (Tokyo - Takamatsu)
- Sunrise Izumo (Tokyo - Izumoshi)
- Nozomi (Tokyo - Hakata)
- Hakataminami)
- Kodama (Tokyo - Shin-Ōsaka, Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata & Hakataminami)
Affiliates
The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:
Transportation
- JR Tokai Bus Company
- JR Tokai Logistics Company (ja:ジェイアール東海物流株式会社)
- Tokai Transport Service Company
- First Air Transport Co., Ltd. (ja:ファーストエアートランスポート株式会社)
Merchandise
- JR Tokai Corporation (ja:ジェイアール東海商事株式会社)
- JR Tokai Takashimaya Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海高島屋)
- JR-Central Passengers Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海パッセンジャーズ)
- JR Tokai Food Service Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアール東海フードサービス株式会社)
- Tokai Kiosk Company (ja:東海キヨスク株式会社)
Construction
- JR Tokai Construction Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアール東海建設株式会社)
- JR Central Consultants Company (ja:ジェイアール東海コンサルタンツ株式会社)
- The Nihon Kikai Hosen Co., Ltd (ja:日本機械保線株式会社)
- Futaba Tetsudo Kogyo Co., Ltd. (ja:双葉鉄道工業株式会社)
- CN Construction Co., Ltd. (ja:シーエヌ建設株式会社)
Information systems
- JR Tokai Information Systems Company (ja:ジェイアール東海情報システム株式会社)
- Shinsei Technos Co., Ltd.(ja:新生テクノス株式会社)
Hotels and resorts
- JR Tokai Hotels Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海ホテルズ)
- Nagoya Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd. (ja:名古屋ターミナルホテル株式会社)
- Shizuoka Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd. (ja:静岡ターミナルホテル株式会社)
Travel
- JR Tokai Agency Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海エージェンシー)
- JR Tokai Tours (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海ツアーズ)
- Hida Forest City Planning Co., Ltd. (ja:飛騨森林都市企画株式会社)
Publishing
- Wedge Inc. (株式会社ウェッジ)
Rolling stock
- Shinkansen Engineering Co., Ltd. (ja:新幹線エンジニアリング株式会社)
- Tokai Rolling Stock & Machinery Co., Ltd. (ja:東海交通機械株式会社)
- Nippon Sharyo, Ltd
Maintenance
- Chuoh Linen Supply Co., Ltd. (ja:中央リネンサプライ株式会社)
- JR Tokai General Building Maintenance Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアール東海総合ビルメンテナンス株式会社)
- Central Maintenance Co., Ltd. (ja:セントラルメンテナンス株式会社)
- Shinkansen Service & Technology Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:関西新幹線サービック)
- Shinkansen Maintenance Tokai Co., Ltd. (ja:新幹線メンテナンス東海株式会社)
- Tokai Seibi Co., Ltd. (ja:東海整備株式会社)
Real estate
- JR Central Building Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアールセントラルビル株式会社)
- JR Development and Management Corporation of Kansai (ja:ジェイアール東海関西開発株式会社)
- JR Development and Management Corporation of Shizuoka (ja:ジェイアール東海静岡開発株式会社)
- JR Tokai Real Estate Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアール東海不動産株式会社)
- Shizuoka Terminal Development Co., Ltd. (ja:静岡ターミナル開発株式会社)
- Shin-Yokohama Station Development Co., Ltd. (ja:新横浜ステーション開発株株式会社)
- Tokyo Station Development Co., Ltd. (ja:東京ステーション開発株式会社)
- Toyohashi Station Building Co., Ltd. (ja:豊橋ステーションビル株式会社)
- Nagoya Station Area Development Corporation (ja:名古屋ステーション開発株式会社)
- Nagoya Terminal Station Building Co., Ltd. (ja:名古屋ターミナルビル株式会社)
- Hamamatsu Terminal Development Co., Ltd. (ja:浜松ターミナル開発株式会社)
Other services
- JR Tokai Well Co., Ltd. (株式会社ja:ジェイアール東海ウェル)
- JR Tokai Partners Co., Ltd. (ja:ジェイアール東海パートナーズ株式会社)
References
- ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Board of Directors, Audit and Supervisory Board Members and Corporate officers (as of June, 2023)". Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Central Japan Railway Company. "Data book 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 30 June 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Central Japan Railway Company. Annual Report 2015 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ^ a b Central Japan Railway Company. "Organization Chart (As of July, 2008)". Retrieved 30 June 2009.
- ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Notice concerning Change of Specified Subsidiary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
- ^ 東海旅客鉄道株式会社, Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha, lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway Stock Company"
- ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Corporate Data". Retrieved 28 June 2009.
- ^ a b Cooper, Chris (8 February 2011). "Rail's Cash-Flow King Stakes $62 Billion on Tokyo Maglev Train". Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
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