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JR Central Towers in
Nagoya, the world's largest train station complex by floor area
The Central Japan Railway Company (東海旅客鉄道株式会社, Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) (TYO: 9022) is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is often referred to in English JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (JR東海, JR Tōkai?).
The company's operational hub is Nagoya Station. The busiest railway line it operates is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami Station and Maibara Station. JR Central also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo Station and Shin-Ōsaka Station. Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen—a proposed Maglev service between Tokyo Station (or Shinagawa Station) and Ōsaka Station (or Shin-Ōsaka Station), of which a short demonstration section has been built.
JR Central's operating area is shown in orange
[edit] Shinkansen
[edit] Conventional lines
- Tōkaidō Main Line: Atami Station—Maibara Station, 341.3 km
- Gotemba Line: Kōzu Station—Numazu Station, 60.2 km
- Minobu Line: Fuji Station—Kōfu Station, 88.4 km
- Iida Line: Toyohashi Station—Tatsuno Station, 195.7 km
- Taketoyo Line (武豊線): Ōbu Station—Taketoyo Station, 19.3 km
- Takayama Main Line: Gifu Station—Inotani Station, 189.2 km
- Chūō Main Line: Shiojiri Station—Nagoya Station, 174.8 km
- Taita Line: Tajimi Station—Mino-Ōta Station, 17.8 km
- Jōhoku Line (城北線): Kachigawa Station—Biwajima Station, 11.2 km (trains are operated Tōkai Transport Service (東海交通事業), not JR Central)
- 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
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