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Native name
  
東日本旅客鉄道株式会社

Industry
  
Founded
  
1 April 1987

Type
  
Headquarters
  
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

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Traded as
  
TYO: 9020OSE: 9020NSE: 9020

Predecessor
  
Area served
  
Kanto and Tohoku regionsNiigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures

Stock price
  
9020 (TYO) JP¥ 10,035 +149.00 (+1.51%)10 Mar, 2:21 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer

CEO
  
Tetsuro Tomita (Apr 2012–)

Owners
  
Japan Trustee Services Bank

Subsidiaries
  
Japan Transport Engineering Company

Profiles

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

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History

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 Tohoku region, and surrounding areas.

Lines

Its railway lines primarily serve Kanto and Tohoku 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.

  • Tohoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Shin-Aomori)
  • Joetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata; Echigo-Yuzawa - Gala Yuzawa)
  • Hokuriku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Kanazawa)
  • Yamagata Shinkansen (Tokyo - Shinjo)
  • Akita Shinkansen (Tokyo - Akita)
  • The Tokyo–Osaka Tokaido Shinkansen is owned and operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), although it stops at several JR East stations.

    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.

  • Chuo Main Line (Tokyo - Shiojiri)
  • Chuo Rapid Line (Tokyo - Otsuki)
  • Chuo-Sobu Line (Tachikawa/Mitaka - Chiba)
  • Hachiko Line (Hachioji - Kuragano)
  • Itsukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashi-Itsukaichi)
  • Joban Line (Ueno - Iwaki)
  • Joetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami)
  • Kawagoe Line (Omiya - Komagawa)
  • Keihin-Tohoku Line (Omiya - Yokohama)
  • Keiyo Line (Tokyo - Soga; Ichikawa-Shiohama - Nishi-Funabashi; Minami-Funabashi - Nishi-Funabashi)
  • Mito Line (Oyama - Tomobe)
  • Musashino Line (Fuchu-Hommachi - Nishi-Funabashi) (Tokyo outer loop)
  • Nambu Line (Kawasaki - Tachikawa; Shitte - Hamakawasaki)
  • Narita Line (Sakura - Choshi; Abiko - Narita; Narita - Narita Airport)
  • Negishi Line (Yokohama - Ofuna)
  • Ome Line (Tachikawa - Okutama)
  • Ryomo Line (Oyama - Shin-Maebashi)
  • Sagami Line (Hashimoto - Chigasaki)
  • Saikyo Line (Osaki - Omiya) ( Old Akabane Line (Ikebukuro - Akabane))
  • Shonan-Shinjuku Line (Shin-Maebashi - Odawara; Utsunomiya - Zushi)
  • Sobu Main Line (Tokyo - Choshi)
  • Sotobo Line (Chiba - Awa-Kamogawa)
  • Takasaki Line (Omiya - Takasaki)
  • Togane Line (Naruto - Oami)
  • Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) (Ueno - Kuroiso)
  • Tokaido Main Line (Tokyo - Kobe)
  • Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ogimachi; Anzen - Okawa; Asano - Umi-Shibaura)
  • Uchibo Line (Soga - Awa-Kamogawa)
  • Ueno-Tokyo Line (Maebashi - Numazu; Utsunomiya-Numazu; Atami-Ito; Takahagi - Shinagawa; Narita - Abiko)
  • Yamanote Line (Osaki - Osaki)
  • Yokohama Line (Higashi-Kanagawa - Hachioji)
  • Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
  • Nikko Line (Utsunomiya - Nikko)
  • Other lines in Kanto

  • Karasuyama Line (Hoshakuji - Ogane - Karasuyama)
  • Kashima Line (Katori - Kashima Soccer Stadium)
  • Kururi Line (Kisarazu - Kazusa-Kameyama)
  • Koshinetsu and Shizuoka regional lines

  • Agatsuma Line (Shibukawa - Omae)
  • Chuo Main Line (Nirasaki - Shiojiri; Okaya - Midoriko Siojiri)
  • Echigo Line (Niigata - Kashiwazaki)
  • Hakushin Line (Niigata - Shibata)
  • Iiyama Line (Toyono - Echigo-Kawaguchi)
  • Ito Line (Atami - Ajiro - Ito) (treated as Tokyo Suburban Area lines)
  • Joetsu Line (Minakami - Miyauchi; Echigo-Yuzawa - Gala-Yuzawa)
  • Koumi Line (Kobuchizawa - Komoro)
  • Oito Line (Matsumoto - Minami-Otari)
  • Shinetsu Main Line (Takasaki - Yokokawa; Shinonoi - Niigata)
  • Shinonoi Line (Shinonoi - Shiojiri)
  • Yahiko Line (Higashi-Sanjo - Yahiko)
  • Tohoku regional lines

  • Aterazawa Line (Kita-Yamagata - Aterazawa)
  • Ban'etsu East Line (Iwaki - Koriyama)
  • Ban'etsu West Line (Koriyama - Niitsu)
  • Gono Line (Higashi-Noshiro - Kawabe)
  • Hachinohe Line (Hachinohe - Kuji)
  • Hanawa Line (Odate - Koma)
  • Ishinomaki Line (Kogota - Onagawa)
  • Iwaizumi Line (Moichi - Iwaizumi)
  • Joban Line (Iwaki - Iwanuma)
  • Kamaishi Line (Hanamaki - Kamaishi)
  • Kesennuma Line (Maeyachi - Kesennuma)
  • Kitakami Line (Kitakami - Yokote)
  • Ofunato Line (Ichinoseki - Sakari)
  • Oga Line (Oiwake - Oga)
  • Ominato Line (Noheji - Ominato)
  • Ōu Main Line (Fukushima - Aomori)
  • Rikuu East Line (Kogota - Shinjo)
  • Rikuu West Line (Shinjo - Amarume)
  • Senseki Line (Aobadori - Ishinomaki)
  • Senzan Line (Sendai - Uzen-Chitose)
  • Suigun Line (Mito - Asaka-Nagamori; Kamisugaya - Hitachi-Ota)
  • Tadami Line (Aizu-Wakamatsu - Koide)
  • Tazawako Line (Morioka - Ōmagari)
  • Tohoku Main Line (Kuroiso - Morioka; Iwakiri - Rifu)
  • Tsugaru Line (Aomori - Mimmaya) (part of Tsugaru-Kaikyo Line)
  • Uetsu Main Line (Niitsu - Akita)
  • Yamada Line (Morioka - Kamaishi)
  • Yonesaka Line (Yonezawa - Sakamachi)
  • 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

  • Asama
  • Hakutaka
  • Hayabusa
  • Hayate
  • Kagayaki
  • Komachi/Super Komachi
  • Nasuno/Max Nasuno
  • Tanigawa/Max Tanigawa
  • Toki/Max Toki
  • Tsubasa
  • Yamabiko/Max Yamabiko
  • Limited express (daytime)

  • Akagi/Swallow Akagi
  • Ayame
  • Super Azusa/Azusa
  • Hitachi and Tokiwa
  • Inaho
  • Kaiji/View Kaiji/Hamakaiji
  • Kamoshika
  • Kinugawa/Spacia Kinugawa
  • Kusatsu
  • Minakami
  • Narita Express
  • Nikko
  • Super View Odoriko/Odoriko
  • Sazanami
  • Wide View Shinano/Shinano
  • Shiosai
  • Ohayo Tochigi/Hometown Tochigi
  • Tsugaru
  • Wakashio
  • Limited express (overnight)

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

    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)
  • Stations

    During fiscal 2014, the busiest stations in the JR East network by average daily passenger count were:

    1. Shinjuku Station (748,157)
    2. Ikebukuro Station (549,503)
    3. Tokyo Station (418,184)
    4. Yokohama Station (403,905)
    5. Shibuya Station (371,789)
    6. Shinagawa Station (342,475)
    7. Shimbashi Station (253,874)
    8. Omiya Station (244,556)
    9. Akihabara Station (241,063)
    10. Kawasaki Station (204,153)

    Subsidiaries

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

    Union issues

    The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stated that JR East's official union is a front for an organized crime syndicate called the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction). An investigation of this is ongoing.

    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". The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation.

    Bids Outside Japan

    EJRC has bid for the London Midland franchise in the United Kingdom. Winners will be announced on June 2017 and will start operating on October 2017.

    References

    East Japan Railway Company Wikipedia


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