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Friday, January 21, 2011

JR East (East Japan Railway Company)


East Japan Railway Company 東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
TypePublic KK (TYO: 9020)
IndustryPrivate railroad
PredecessorJapan National Railways (JNR)
FoundedApril 1, 1987 (privatization of JNR)
Headquarters2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, TokyoJapan
Area servedKantō and Tōhoku regions
Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures
Key peopleMutsutake Ōtsuka, Chairman
Satoshi Seino (ja:清野智), President
ProductsSuica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Servicespassenger railways
freight services
bus transportation
other related services 
Revenuedecrease ¥2.70 trillion (2009) 
Operating incomedecrease ¥433 billion (2009)
Net incomedecrease ¥178 billion (2009)
Total assetsincrease ¥6.97 trillion (2009)
Total equityincrease ¥1.74 trillion (2009)
Owner(s)Japan Trustee Services Bank(6.61%)
The Master Trust Bank of Japan(4.93%)
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ(3.13%)
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation(2.63%)
Mizuho Corporate Bank (2.50%)
Mizuho Bank (2.50%)
The JR East Employees Shareholding Association (2.46%)
Nippon Life (2.00%)
Dai-ichi Life (1.78%)
(as of March 31, 2009)
Employees61,900 (as of April 1, 2008)
DivisionsRailway operations
Life-style business
IT & Suica business
Subsidiaries
83 companies,

including Tokyo Monorail
Websitewww.jreast.co.jp
     East Japan Railway Company
JR East Shinkansen lineup at Niigata Depot 200910.jpg
JR East Shinkansen 200 ~ E5 Series
Operation
National railwayJapan Railways Group
Infrastructure companyJapan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
Statistics
Ridership6.169 billion per year
Passenger km130.5 billion per year
System length
Total7,526.8 km (4,676.9 mi)
Double track3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)
Electrified5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)
High-speed1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)
Gauge
Main1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
High-speed1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Electrification
Main1,500 V DC overhead catenary2,680.3 km (1,665.5 mi)
20 kV AC 50 Hz1,779.5 km (1,105.7 mi)
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)
Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz)
Nagano Shinkansen (50 Hz/60 Hz)
Features
No. tunnels1,263
Tunnel length882 km (548 mi)
Longest tunnelThe Iwate-Ichinohe Tunnel25,808 m (84,672 ft)
Tohoku Shinkansen
No. bridges14,865
Longest bridgeNo.1 Kitakami River Bridge 3,868 m (12,690 ft)
Tohoku Shinkansen
No. stations1,703


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.



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



JR East was incorporated on April 1, 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 Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures.

Shinkansen
JR East operates all of the Shinkansen, high speed rail lines, north of Tokyo.
Akita Shinkansen (Morioka - Akita)
Nagano Shinkansen (Tokyo - Nagano)
Jōetsu Shinkansen (Tokyo - Niigata)
Tōhoku Shinkansen (Tokyo - Sendai - Hachinohe - Shin Aomori)
Yamagata Shinkansen (Fukushima - Shinjō)
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.
■ Chūō Main Line (Tokyo - Nirasaki[citation needed])
■ Chūō Rapid Line (Tokyo - Takao - Ōtsuki)
■ Chūō-Sōbu Line (Mitaka - Shinjuku - Chiba)
■ Hachikō Line (Hachiōji - Takasaki)
■ Itsukaichi Line (Haijima - Musashi-Itsukaichi)
■ Jōban Line (Ueno - Takahagi)
■ Jōetsu Line (Takasaki - Minakami)
■ Kawagoe Line (Ōmiya - Kawagoe - Komagawa)
■ Keihin-Tōhoku Line (Ōmiya - Tokyo - Yokohama)
■ Keiyō Line (Tokyo - Soga)
■ 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 - Ōme - Okutama)
■ Ryōmō Line (Oyama - Shin-Maebashi)
■ Sagami Line (Hashimoto - Chigasaki)
■ Saikyō Line (Ōsaki - Ōmiya) (■ Old Akabane Line (Ikebukuro - Akabane))
■ Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Ōmiya - Shinjuku - Ōfuna)
■ Sōbu Main Line (Tokyo - Chōshi)
■ Sotobō Line (Chiba - Mobara - Awa-Kamogawa)
■ Takasaki Line (Ōmiya - Takasaki)
■ Tōgane Line (Narutō - Ōami)
■ Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) (Ueno - Kuroiso)
■ Tōkaidō Main Line (Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami)
■ Tsurumi Line (Tsurumi - Ōgimachi; Anzen - Ōkawa; Asano - Umi-Shibaura)
■ Uchibō Line (Soga - Kisarazu - Awa-Kamogawa)
■ Yamanote Line (Ōsaki - Shinjuku - Tabata - Tokyo - Ōsaki)
■ Yokohama Line (Higashi-Kanagawa - Hachiōji)
■ Yokosuka Line (Tokyo - Kurihama)
Nikkō Line (Utsunomiya - Nikkō)
[edit]Other lines in Kantō
Karasuyama Line (Karasuyama - Hōshakuji)
■ Kashima Line (Katori - Kashima Soccer Stadium)
■ Kururi Line (Kisarazu - Kazusa-Kameyama)

Tōkai and Kōshinetsu regional lines
■ Agatsuma Line (Shibukawa - Ōmae)
■ Chūō Main Line (Nirasaki - Shiojiri)
■ Echigo Line (Niigata - Kashiwazaki)
■ Hakushin Line (Niigata - Shibata)
■ Iiyama Line (Toyono - Echigo-Kawaguchi)
Itō Line (Atami - Itō) (treated as Tokyo Suburban Area lines)
■ Jōetsu Line (Shibukawa - Miyauchi; Echigo-Yuzawa - Gala-Yuzawa)
Koumi Line (Kobuchisawa - Komoro)
■ Ōito Line (Matsumoto - Minamiotari)
■ Shin'etsu Main Line (Takasaki - Yokokawa; Shinonoi - Nagano - Niigata)
■ Shinonoi Line (Shinonoi - Shiojiri)
■ Yahiko Line (Higashi-Sanjō - Yahiko)

Tōhoku regional lines
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 (Takahagi - 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 - Yamagata - Akita - 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; Hachinohe - Aomori; Iwakiri - Rifu)
Tsugaru Line (Aomori - Mimmaya) (a part of Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line)
Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line (Aomori - Nakaoguni)
■ 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 2008.

Shinkansen
Asama
Hayate
Komachi
Nasuno/Max Nasuno
Tanigawa/Max Tanigawa
Toki/Max Toki
Tsubasa
Yamabiko/Max Yamabiko
[edit]Limited express (daytime)
Akagi/Weekend Akagi
Ayame
Super Azusa/Azusa
Hakuchō/Super Hakuchō
Hakutaka
Super Hitachi/Fresh Hitachi
Inaho
Kaiji
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)
Akebono
Cassiopeia
Fuji
Hayabusa
Hokuriku
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)

Subsidiaries

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

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.

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.




(source:wikipedia)

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