Central Japan Railway Company
The JR Central Towers company headquarters located above Nagoya 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, privatization of JNR |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Tōkai region |
Key people | Shin Kaneko, Chairman Shunsuke Niwa, President |
| Products | TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card) |
| Services | passenger railways travel agency services wholesale and retail parking lot operations real estate food and beverage sales casualty insurance other related services |
| Revenue | ¥1,672,295 million (2014) |
| ¥506,598 million (2014) | |
| ¥264,134 million (2014) | |
| Total assets | ¥5,217,982 million (2014) |
| Total equity | ¥2,020,196 million (2014) |
| Owner | Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%) |
Number of employees | 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008) |
| Divisions | Conventional lines operations Shinkansen operations |
| Subsidiaries | 39 group companies, including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008) |
| Website | https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/ |
| Central Japan Railway Company | |||||
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JR Central N700 Series Shinkansen Nozomi train | |||||
| Operation | |||||
| National railway | Japan Railways Group | ||||
| Infrastructure company | Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency | ||||
| Statistics | |||||
| Ridership | 0.528 billion per year | ||||
| Passenger km | 55.811 billion per year | ||||
| System length | |||||
| Total | 1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi) | ||||
| Double track | 1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%) | ||||
| Electrified | 1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%) | ||||
| High-speed | 552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%) | ||||
| Track gauge | |||||
| Main | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) | ||||
| High-speed | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||
| Electrification | |||||
| Main | Overhead line, 1,500 V DC, 1,418.2 km (881.2 mi) | ||||
| High-speed | Overhead line, 25 kV 60 Hz AC, 552.6 km (343.4 mi) | ||||
| Features | |||||
| No. stations | 403 | ||||
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The Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and occasionally as JR Tokai (Japanese: JR東海). The term Tōkai refers to the Tōkai region (the southern portion of Central Japan), in which the company chiefly operates.
JR Central's operational hub is Nagoya Station, and the company's administrative headquarters are located in the JR Central Towers above the building. The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami and Maibara; this largely parallels the company's high-speed rail service, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which runs between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka. JR Central is additionally responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen – an under-construction maglev service between Tokyo and Osaka, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2034.
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. Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.
JR Central is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange with American depositary receipts traded over-the-counter through OTCMG Pink, is a constituent of the TOPIX Core30 index, and is also one of only three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR East and JR West. It is one of Nagoya's gosanke companies along with Toyota and the Chubu Electric Power Company.