Central Japan Railway Company

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Central Japan Railway Company
Native name
東海旅客鉄道株式会社
Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō (lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway") kabushiki gaisha
Company typePublic (KK)
IndustryPrivate railway
PredecessorJapanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1987-04-01), privatization of JNR
Headquarters
JR Central Towers
1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 450-6101
,
Japan
Area served
Tōkai region
Key people
Shin Kaneko, Chairman
Shunsuke Niwa, President
beverage sales[2]
casualty insurance[2]
other related services[2]
RevenueIncrease ¥1,672,295 million (2014)[3]
Increase ¥506,598 million (2014)[3]
Increase ¥264,134 million (2014)[3]
Total assetsIncrease ¥5,217,982 million (2014)[3]
Total equityIncrease ¥2,020,196 million (2014)[3]
OwnerPublic float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%)
Number of employees
16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)[2]
DivisionsConventional lines operations[4]
Shinkansen operations[4]
Subsidiaries39 group companies,[2]
including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[5]
Websiteenglish.jr-central.co.jp/index.html
  Central Japan Railway Company
No. stations
403[2]
Map
Service area
Shinkansen station layouts
TOICA Service Area (in Japanese)

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

maglev service between Tokyo and Osaka
, 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

Conventional lines

Named train services

Affiliates

The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:

Transportation

Merchandise

Construction

Information systems

Hotels and resorts

Travel

Publishing

Rolling stock

Maintenance

Real estate

Other services

JR Central Towers in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, the world's largest train station complex by floor area

References

  1. ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Board of Directors, Audit and Supervisory Board Members and Corporate officers (as of June, 2023)". Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c d e Central Japan Railway Company. Annual Report 2015 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b Central Japan Railway Company. "Organization Chart (As of July, 2008)". Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  5. ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Notice concerning Change of Specified Subsidiary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
  6. ^ 東海旅客鉄道株式会社, Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha, lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway Stock Company"
  7. ^ Central Japan Railway Company. "Corporate Data". Retrieved 28 June 2009.
  8. ^ 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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