Central Japan Railway Company
The Central Japan Railway Company 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.
The JR Central Towers company headquarters located above Nagoya Station | |
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) |
Traded as | |
| Industry | Private railway |
| Predecessor | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
| Founded | 1 April 1987, 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 |
| Products | TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card) |
| Services | passenger railways travel agency services wholesale and retail parking lot operations real estate food and beverage sales casualty insurance other related services |
| Revenue | ¥1,672,295 million (2014) |
| ¥506,598 million (2014) | |
Net income | ¥264,134 million (2014) |
| Total assets | ¥5,217,982 million (2014) |
| Total equity | ¥2,020,196 million (2014) |
| Owner | Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%) |
Number of employees | 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008) |
| Divisions | Conventional lines operations Shinkansen operations |
| Subsidiaries | 39 group companies, including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008) |
| Website | english.jr-central.co.jp/index.html |
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JR Central N700 Series Shinkansen Nozomi train | |||||
| Operation | |||||
| National railway | Japan Railways Group | ||||
| Infrastructure company | Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Ridership | 0.528 billion per year | ||||
| Passenger km | 55.811 billion per year | ||||
| System length | |||||
| Total | 1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi) | ||||
| Double track | 1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%) | ||||
| Electrified | 1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%) | ||||
| High-speed | 552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%) | ||||
| Track gauge | |||||
| Main | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) | ||||
| High-speed | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||
| Electrification | |||||
| Main | 1,500 V DC overhead catenary 1,418.2 km (881.2 mi) | ||||
| 25 kV AC 60 Hz overhead | 552.6 km (343.4 mi) Tokaido Shinkansen | ||||
| Features | |||||
| No. stations | 403 | ||||
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JR Central's operational hub is Nagoya Station and the company's administrative headquarters are located in the JR Central Towers above the station. The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami and Maibara. The company also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka. Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen—a 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. Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.
JR Central is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange with American depositary receipts traded over-the-counter through OTCMG Pink, is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR East and JR West. It is also one of Nagoya's gosanke companies along with Toyota and the Chubu Electric Power Company.