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 TheJR Central Towers company headquarters located aboveNagoya Station | |
Native name | 東海旅客鉄道株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō (lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway") kabushiki gaisha |
| Company type | Public (KK) |
| Industry | Private railway |
| Predecessor | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
| Founded | 1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1987-04-01), privatization of JNR |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Tōkai region |
Key people | Shin Kaneko, Chairman Shunsuke Niwa, President[1] |
| Products | TOICA,EX-IC (a rechargeable contactlesssmart card) |
| Services | passenger railways[2] travel agency services[2] wholesale andretail[2] parking lot operations[2] real estate[2] food andbeverage sales[2] casualty insurance[2] other related services[2] |
| Revenue |  ¥1,672,295 million (2014)[3] |
| ¥506,598 million (2014)[3] | |
| ¥264,134 million (2014)[3] | |
| Total assets | ¥5,217,982 million (2014)[3] |
| Total equity | ¥2,020,196 million (2014)[3] |
| Owner | Public float, largest single shareholder:Mizuho Bank (4.39%) |
Number of employees | 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)[2] |
| Divisions | Conventional lines operations[4] Shinkansen operations[4] |
| Subsidiaries | 39 group companies,[2] includingNippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[5] |
| Website | english.jr-central.co.jp/index.html |
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| National railway | Japan Railways Group | ||||
| Infrastructure company | Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Ridership | 0.528 billion per year[2] | ||||
| Passenger km | 55.811 billion per year[2] | ||||
| System length | |||||
| Total | 1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi)[2] | ||||
| Double track | 1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%)[2] | ||||
| Electrified | 1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%)[2] | ||||
| High-speed | 552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%)[2] | ||||
| 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 DCoverhead catenary 1,418.2 km (881.2 mi)[2] | ||||
| 25 kV AC 60 Hz overhead | 552.6 km (343.4 mi)[2] Tokaido Shinkansen | ||||
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| No. stations | 403[2] | ||||
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TheCentral Japan Railway Company[6] is the main railway company operating in theChūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English asJR Central and occasionally asJR Tokai (Japanese:JR東海).[7] The termTōkai refers to the southern portion of Central Japan, thegeographical region in which the company chiefly operates.
JR Central's operational hub isNagoya Station and the company's administrative headquarters are located in theJR Central Towers above the station.[8] The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is theTōkaidō Main Line betweenAtami andMaibara. The company also operates theTōkaidō Shinkansen betweenTokyo andShin-Ōsaka. Additionally it is responsible for theChūō Shinkansen — amaglev service betweenTokyo andOsaka, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2034.[9]
JR Central is Japan's most profitable and highest throughput high-speed-rail operator, carrying 138 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009, considerably more than the world's largest airline.[10] Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.[10]
JR Central is listed in theTokyo Stock Exchange andNagoya Stock Exchange withAmerican depositary receipts traded over-the-counter throughOTCMG Pink, is a constituent of theTOPIX Core30 index, and is also one of the three onlyJapan Railways Group constituents of theNikkei 225 index, the others beingJR East andJR West. It is one of Nagoya'sgosanke companies along withToyota and theChubu Electric Power Company.[citation needed]
The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:
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