East Japan Railway Company

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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(s)	Japanese 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) Tetsuro Tomita (ja) (President)
Products	Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services	passenger railways [1] freight services [1] bus transportation [1] other related services [1]
Revenue	¥2,532,174 million(FY 2012) ¥2,537,353 million (FY 2011)
Operating income	¥360,025 million(FY 2012) ¥345,086 million (FY 2011)
Net income	¥108,738 million(FY 2012) ¥76,224 million (FY 2011)
Total assets	¥7,060,409 million(FY 2012) ¥7,042,899 million (FY 2011)
Total equity	¥1,890,634 million(FY 2012) ¥1,834,555 million (FY 2011)
Owner(s)	Japan Trustee Services Bank (5.06%) The Master Trust Bank of Japan (4.17%) The JR East Employees Shareholding Association (3.29%) The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (3.13%) Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (2.63%) Mizuho Corporate Bank (2.50%) Mizuho Bank (2.50%) SSBT OD05 OMNIBUS ACCOUNT—TREATY CLIENTS (2.32%) Nippon Life (2.00%) Dai-ichi Life (2.00%) (as of 31 March 2012)
Employees	71,729 (as of 31 March 2012)
Divisions	Railway operations [2] Life-style business [2] IT & Suica business[2]
Subsidiaries	83 companies,[3][4] including Tokyo Monorail
Website	www.jreast.co.jp
References: [5][6]

East Japan Railway Company
Line up of JR East Shinkansen trains, October 2009
Operation
National railway	Japan Railways Group
Infrastructure company	Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
Statistics
Ridership	6.169 billion per year[4]
Passenger km	130.5 billion per year[4]
System length
Total	7,526.8 km (4,676.9 mi)[4]
Double track	3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)[4]
Electrified	5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)[4]
High-speed	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)[4]
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 2,680.3 km (1,665.5 mi)[4]
20 kV AC, 50 Hz	1,779.5 km (1,105.7 mi)[4] Conventional lines in Tohoku Joban Line (Fujishiro-Iwanuma) Mito Line
25 kV AC, 50/60 Hz overhead	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi)[4] Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz) Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz) Nagano Shinkansen (50/60 Hz)
Features
No. tunnels	1,263[4]
Tunnel length	882 km (548 mi)[4]
Longest tunnel	The Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel 25,808 m (84,672 ft) Tohoku Shinkansen[4]
No. bridges	14,865[4]
Longest bridge	No.1 Kitakami River Bridge 3,868 m (12,690 ft) Tohoku Shinkansen[4]
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]

Commuter trains on the Chūō Line in Tokyo

KiHa E200 hybrid DMU on Koumi Line

Special steam train on the Jōetsu Line in Gunma Prefecture

Ticket machines in a station in Tokyo

Smart card turnstile in Ikebukuro Station

History [edit]

JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). 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 [edit]

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

Shinkansen [edit]

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

• Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita)
• Nagano Shinkansen (Takasaki - Nagano)
• Jōetsu Shinkansen (Ōmiya - Niigata; Echigo-Yuzawa - Gala Yuzawa)
• Tōhoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Shin-Aomori)
• Yamagata Shinkansen (Fukushima - Shinjō)

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

Kantō regional lines [edit]

Greater Tokyo Area [edit]

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.

• ■ Chūō Main Line (Tokyo - Shiojiri)
• ■ Chūō Rapid Line (Tokyo - Ōtsuki)
• ■ Chūō-Sōbu Line (Mitaka - Chiba)
• ■ Hachikō Line (Hachiōji - Kuragano)
• ■ Itsukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashi-Itsukaichi)
• ■ Jōban Line (Ueno - Iwaki)
• ■ Jōetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami)
• ■ Kawagoe Line (Ōmiya - Komagawa)
• ■ Keihin-Tōhoku Line (Ōmiya - Yokohama)
• ■ Keiyō Line (Tokyo - Soga; Ichikawa-Shiohama - Nishi-Funabashi; Minami-Funabashi - Nishi-Funabashi)
• ■ Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe)
• ■ Musashino Line (Fuchū-Hommachi - Nishi-Funabashi) (Tokyo outer loop)
• ■ Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa; Shitte - Hamakawasaki)
• ■ Narita Line (Sakura - Chōshi; Abiko - Narita; Narita - Narita Airport)
• ■ Negishi Line (Yokohama - Ōfuna)
• ■ Ōme Line (Tachikawa - Okutama)
• ■ Ryōmō Line (Oyama - Shin-Maebashi)
• ■ Sagami Line (Hashimoto - Chigasaki)
• ■ Saikyō Line (Ōsaki - Ōmiya) (■ Old Akabane Line (Ikebukuro - Akabane))
• ■ Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Shin-Maebashi - Odawara; Utsunomiya - Zushi)
• ■ Sōbu Main Line (Tokyo - Chōshi)
• ■ Sotobō Line (Chiba - Awa-Kamogawa)
• ■ Takasaki Line (Ōmiya - Takasaki)
• ■ Tōgane Line (Narutō - Ōami)
• ■ Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) (Ueno - Kuroiso)
• ■ Tōkaidō Main Line (Tokyo - Atami)
• ■ Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ōgimachi; Anzen - Ōkawa; Asano - Umi-Shibaura)
• ■ Uchibō Line (Soga - Awa-Kamogawa)
• ■ Yamanote Line (Ōsaki - Ōsaki)
• ■ Yokohama Line (Higashi-Kanagawa - Hachiōji)
• ■ Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
• ■ Nikkō Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkō)

Other lines in Kantō [edit]

• Karasuyama Line (Hōshakuji - Ōgane - Karasuyama)
• ■ Kashima Line (Katori - Kashima Soccer Stadium)
• ■ Kururi Line (Kisarazu - Kazusa-Kameyama)

Kōshin'etsu and Shizuoka regional lines [edit]

• ■ Agatsuma Line (Shibukawa - Ōmae)
• ■ Chūō Main Line (Nirasaki - Shiojiri; Okaya - Midoriko Siojiri)
• ■ Echigo Line (Niigata - Kashiwazaki)
• ■ Hakushin Line (Niigata - Shibata)
• ■ Iiyama Line (Toyono - Echigo-Kawaguchi)
• Itō Line (Atami - Ajiro - Itō) (treated as Tokyo Suburban Area lines)
• ■ Jōetsu Line (Minakami - Miyauchi; Echigo-Yuzawa - Gala-Yuzawa)
• Koumi Line (Kobuchizawa - Komoro)
• ■ Ōito Line (Matsumoto - Minami-Otari)
• ■ Shinetsu Main Line (Takasaki - Yokokawa; Shinonoi - Niigata)
• ■ Shinonoi Line (Shinonoi - Shiojiri)
• ■ Yahiko Line (Higashi-Sanjō - Yahiko)

Tōhoku regional lines [edit]

• ■ Aterazawa Line (Kita-Yamagata - Aterazawa)
• ■ Ban'etsu East Line (Iwaki - Kōriyama)
• ■ Ban'etsu West Line (Kōriyama - Niitsu)
• ■ Gonō Line (Higashi-Noshiro - Kawabe)
• ■ Hachinohe Line (Hachinohe - Kuji)
• ■ Hanawa Line (Ōdate - Kōma)
• ■ Ishinomaki Line (Kogota - Onagawa)
• ■ Iwaizumi Line (Moichi - Iwaizumi)
• ■ Jōban Line (Iwaki - Iwanuma)
• ■ Kamaishi Line (Hanamaki - Kamaishi)
• ■ Kesennuma Line (Maeyachi - Kesennuma)
• ■ Kitakami Line (Kitakami - Yokote)
• ■ Ōfunato Line (Ichinoseki - Sakari)
• Oga Line (Oiwake - Oga)
• ■ Ōminato Line (Noheji - Ōminato)
• ■ Ōu Main Line (Fukushima - Aomori)
• ■ Rikuu East Line (Kogota - Shinjō)
• ■ Rikuu West Line (Shinjō - Amarume)
• ■ Senseki Line (Aobadōri - Ishinomaki)
• ■ Senzan Line (Sendai - Uzen-Chitose)
• ■ Suigun Line (Mito - Asaka-Nagamori; Kamisugaya - Hitachi-Ōta)
• ■ Tadami Line (Aizu-Wakamatsu - Koide)
• ■ Tazawako Line (Morioka - Ōmagari)
• ■ Tōhoku Main Line (Kuroiso - Morioka; Iwakiri - Rifu)
• Tsugaru Line (Aomori - Mimmaya) (part of Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line)
• ■ Uetsu Main Line (Niitsu - Akita)
• ■ Yamada Line (Morioka - Kamaishi)
• ■ Yonesaka Line (Yonezawa - Sakamachi)

Train services [edit]

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

Shinkansen [edit]

• Asama
• Hayabusa
• Hayate
• Komachi/Super Komachi
• Nasuno/Max Nasuno
• Tanigawa/Max Tanigawa
• Toki/Max Toki
• Tsubasa
• Yamabiko/Max Yamabiko

Limited express (daytime) [edit]

• Akagi/Weekend Akagi
• Ayame
• Super Azusa/Azusa
• Hakuchō/Super Hakuchō
• Hakutaka
• Super Hitachi/Fresh Hitachi
• Inaho
• Kaiji/View Kaiji/Hamakaiji
• Kamoshika
• Kinugawa/Spacia Kinugawa
• Kusatsu
• Minakami
• Narita Express
• Nikkō
• Super View Odoriko/Odoriko
• Sazanami
• Wide View Shinano/Shinano
• Shiosai
• Ohayō Tochigi/Hometown Tochigi
• Tsugaru
• Wakashio

Limited express (overnight) [edit]

• Akebono
• Cassiopeia
• Hokutosei
• Nihonkai
• Sunrise Izumo/Sunrise Seto
• Twilight Express

Express [edit]

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

• Hamanasu (JR Hokkaido)
• Kitaguni (JR West)
• Noto (JR West)

Subsidiaries [edit]

JR East headquarters, located near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo

• Higashi-Nihon Kiosk - provides newspapers, drinks and other items in station kiosks and operates the Newdays convenience store chain
• JR Bus Kantō / JR Bus Tōhoku - intercity bus operators
• Nippon Restaurant Enterprise - provides bentō box lunches on trains and in train stations
• Tokyo Monorail - (70% owned)

Sponsorship [edit]

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 [edit]

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.^[7]

East Japan Railway Culture Foundation [edit]

The East Japan Railway Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization established by JR East for the purpose of developing a "richer railway culture".^[8] The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation.

References [edit]

External links [edit]

	Tokyo portal
	Companies portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: JR East

• East Japan Railway Company Web Site (in English)
• JR East official apology for "Inaho No.14" accident on 25 December 2005

v t e JR Group
past: Japanese Government Railways | Japanese National Railways | JNR Settlement Corporation
Passenger Railway Companies	JR Hokkaido	JR East	JR Central	JR West	JR Shikoku	JR Kyushu
JR Bus Companies	JR Hokkaido Bus	JR Bus Tohoku	JR Tokai Bus	West JR Bus	JR Shikoku Bus	JR Kyushu Bus
		JR Bus Kanto		Chugoku JR Bus
		JR Bustech
Smart cards	Kitaca	Suica	TOICA	ICOCA	To be introduced in 2014	SUGOCA
Others	JR Freight	RTRI	JR Systems
Description companies	JRTT
See also	Shinkansen - Railway Museum - Modern Transportation Museum - SCMaglev and Railway Park - SoftBank Telecom

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