Kantō Railway

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Kantō Railway (関東鉄道, Kantō Tetsudō) is a private railway company, which operates two lines in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. The company is a subsidiary of Keisei Electric Railway and other companies. Additionally, the company has a bus department in Ibaraki Prefecture and Chiba Prefecture in Japan.

Overview

This company was established as Joso Railway in 1913. In 1945, Joso Railway was merged into Joso-Tsukuba Railway with Tsukuba Railway. Joso-Tsukuba Railway was split into Kanto Railway in 1965, which merged with Ryugasaki Railway. Around 1980, Tsukuba Railway (which would be suspended) and

Trains

The company operates the following two lines:

• Jōsō Line
• Ryūgasaki Line

Buses

The company manages the following four bus companies:

• Kanto Railway
• Kantetsu Green Bus
• Kantetsu Purple Bus
• Kantetsu Kankō Bus

Outline

Kanto Railway is also a bus company with coverage in the south and central Ibaraki and east Chiba. The bus department occupies 70% of benefit of the Kanto Railway. The company has ten offices and the service distance is 2,788.8 km.

The bus department used to have vast bus routes, but some were discontinued after proving unprofitable. Currently, certain discontinued bus routes have been revived as community buses operated by subsidiary bus companies (

The company has coverage of many attractions (

When many events are happening in Ibaraki, the company operates extra bus routes to Ibaraki Airport, Kashima Soccer Stadium and more.

Tickets can be purchased in stores at

Bus routes

Highway buses

• TSUKUBA
  • Tsukuba Center
• TM Liner
  • Tsukuba Center - Mito Station (Ibaraki)
• MITO
  • Tokyo Station - Mito Station (Ibaraki)
• KASHIMA
  • Kashima-Jingu Station
• Night bus
  • Kyoto Station and Namba Station

• 
  2300 series DMU
• 
  KiHa 350

  DMU
• 
  KiHa 350 DMU
• 
  KiHa 300 DMU
• 
  Ryūgasaki Line KiHa 530 DMU
• 
  Diesel locomotive DD502

See also

• Keisei Bus
• Keisei Transit Bus
• Tokyo Bay City Bus
• Tokyo BRT

References

External links

• Official website

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