East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company
東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
Type Public KK
Traded as TYO: 9020
Industry Private railroad
Predecessor Japan National Railways (JNR)
Founded 1 April 1987 (privatization of JNR)
Headquarters 2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Area served Kantō and Tōhoku regions
Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures
Key people Mutsutake Ōtsuka (Chairman)
Satoshi Seino (ja:清野智) (President)
Products Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services passenger railways [1]
freight services [1]
bus transportation [1]
other related services [1]
Revenue ¥2,537,353 million (2011) [2][3]
Operating income ¥345,086 million (2011)[2][3]
Net income ¥76,224 million (2011)[2][3]
Total assets ¥7,042,899 million (2011)[2]
Total equity ¥1,834,555 million (2011)[2]
Owner(s) Japan Trustee Services Bank (6.61%)[4]
The Master Trust Bank of Japan (4.93%)[4]
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (3.13%)[4]
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (2.63%)[4]
Mizuho Corporate Bank (2.50%)[4]
Mizuho Bank (2.50%)[4]
The JR East Employees Shareholding Association (2.46%)[4]
Nippon Life (2.00%)[4]
Dai-ichi Life (1.78%)[4]
(as of 31 March 2009)
Employees 61,900 (as of 1 April 2008)[1]
Divisions Railway operations [5]
Life-style business [5]
IT & Suica business[5]
Subsidiaries

83 companies,[6]

[7]
including Tokyo Monorail
Website www.jreast.co.jp
     East Japan Railway Company
JR East Shinkansen 200 ~ E5 Series
Operation
National railway Japan Railways Group
Infrastructure company Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
Statistics
Ridership 6.169 billion per year[7]
Passenger km 130.5 billion per year[7]
System length
Total 7,526.8 km (4,676.9 mi)[7]
Double track 3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)[7]
Electrified 5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)[7]
High-speed 1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)[7]
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 2,680.3 km (1,665.5 mi)[7]
20 kV AC 50 Hz 1,779.5 km (1,105.7 mi)[7]
Conventional lines in Tohoku
Joban Line (Fujishiro-Iwanuma)
Mito Line
25 kV AC 50 Hz/60 Hz overhead　 1,052.9 km (654.2 mi)[7]
Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Nagano Shinkansen (50 Hz/60 Hz)
Features
No. tunnels 1,263[7]
Tunnel length 882 km (548 mi)[7]
Longest tunnel The Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel 25,808 m (84,672 ft)
Tohoku Shinkansen[7]
No. bridges 14,865[7]
Longest bridge No.1 Kitakami River Bridge 3,868 m (12,690 ft)
Tohoku Shinkansen[7]
No. stations 1,703[1]
Map

Shinkansen lines
Conventional lines
Greater Tokyo Area Network Map
Suica and PASMO Network Map

East Japan Railway Company (東日本旅客鉄道株式会社 Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本?) in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo.[1]

Contents

History

JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways. The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002.

Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Tōhoku region, and surrounding areas.

Lines

Its railway lines primarily serve Kantō and Tōhoku regions, along with adjacent areas in Koshin'etsu region (Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi) and Shizuoka prefectures.

Shinkansen

JR East operates all of the Shinkansen, high speed rail lines, north of Tokyo.

The Tokyo–Osaka Tōkaidō Shinkansen is owned and operated by the Central Japan Railway Company, although it stops at several JR East stations.

Kantō regional lines

Greater Tokyo Area

These lines have sections inside the Tokyo Suburban Area (東京近郊区間) designated by JR East. This does not necessarily mean that the lines are fully inside the Greater Tokyo Area.

Other lines in Kantō

Kōshin'etsu and Shizuoka regional lines

Tōhoku regional lines

Train services

Below is the full list of limited express (including Shinkansen) and express train services operated on JR East lines as of 2011.

Shinkansen

Limited express (daytime)

Limited express (overnight)

Express

All remaining express services operated on JR East tracks are overnight expresses (夜行急行列車 yakō kyūkō ressha?).

Subsidiaries

Sponsorship

JR East co-sponsors the JEF United Ichihara Chiba J-League soccer club, which was formed by a merger between JR East and Furukawa Electric company teams.

Environmental issues

JR East aims to reduce its carbon emissions by half, as measured over the period 1990-2030. This would be achieved by increasing the efficiency of trains and company-owned thermal power stations and by developing hybrid trains.[8]

East Japan Railway Culture Foundation

The East Japan Railway Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization established by JR East for the purpose of developing a "richer railway culture".[9] The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g East Japan Railway Company. "JR East Corporate Data". http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/data/index.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009. (English)
  2. ^ a b c d e East Japan Railway Company. "Consolidated Results of Fiscal 2011 (Year Ended 31 March 2011)" (in English). http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/investor/financial/2011/pdf/2011_financialresults.pdf. Retrieved 27 April 2011. 
  3. ^ a b c East Japan Railway Company. "Notice Regarding Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Differences between Forecasts of Business Results and Actual Results" (in English). http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/investor/financial/2011/pdf/2011_financialresults_02.pdf. Retrieved 27 April 2011. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i East Japan Railway Company. "Business Report for the 22nd Fiscal Year". http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/investor/shareholders/2009/pdf/business.pdf. Retrieved 20 June 2009.  (English)
  5. ^ a b c East Japan Railway Company. "Organization". http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/organization/index.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009. (English)
  6. ^ East Japan Railway Company. "グループ会社一覧". http://www.jreast.co.jp/group/index.html. Retrieved 20 June 2009. (Japanese)
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o East Japan Railway Company. "会社要覧2008". http://www.jreast.co.jp/youran/pdf/jre_youran_all.pdf. Retrieved 20 June 2009. (Japanese)
  8. ^ 'JR East Efforts to Prevent Global Warming' in Japan Railway & Transport Review No. 51 (pp.22–27), retrieved 2010-12-15
  9. ^ East Japan Railway Culture Foundation. "FOR A RICHER RAILWAY CULTURE". http://www.ejrcf.or.jp/en_zh/about/index_en.html. Retrieved 28 October 2007. 

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