Enoshima Dentetsu
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Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | July 10, 1926 |
| Seat | Fujisawa |
| Number of employees | 727 |
| sales | 12.6 billion yen |
| Branch | Rail and bus transport |
| Status: 2017 | |
The Enoshima Dentetsu ( Japanese ( 江 ノ 島 電 鉄 株式会社 ), Enoshima Dentetsu kabushiki-gaisha , English Enoshima Electric Railway Co., Ltd. ), Enoden for short (Japanese 江 ノ 電 ), is a Japanese railway company . The Fujisawa- based company operates a railway line in Kanagawa Prefecture and is a fully consolidated subsidiary of the Odakyu Group .
Companies
The Enoshima Dentetsu operates the Enoshima Dentetsu line, named after it, along the north bank of Sagami Bay . This partially tram-like line is 10.0 km long and connects Fujisawa with Kamakura . In doing so, it opens up the Shonan region, which is important for tourism, with numerous sights and cultural assets.
The second mainstay is the subordinate bus company Enoden Bus ( 江 ノ 電 バ ス ). It operates regular and coach services and provides a wide range of special transport services. The route network includes several dozen lines and extends over the cities of Fujisawa , Kamakura and Yokohama . There are also express bus routes to Tokyo-Haneda Airport, as well as to Kyoto and Osaka .
Enoshima Dentetsu also operates several tourist facilities on the Enoshima peninsula . These include the 60 m high Enoshima Sea Candle lighthouse , the Samuel Cocking Garden , several souvenir shops, a parking garage and a restaurant. The hill in the center of the peninsula is accessed by the Enoshima Escar , an escalator system consisting of four sections.
history
Enoshima Dentetsu was founded on November 25, 1900 with a share capital of 200,000 yen . It then began building the railway line and put it into operation in four stages between 1903 and 1910. After ten years the company ceased to exist, with the takeover by the electricity company Yokohama Denki on October 3, 1911. This in turn went on May 1, 1921 in Tōkyō Dentō , a predecessor of Tepco .
On July 10, 1926, a second company called Enoshima Dentetsu was formed that had nothing in common with the first. Their goal was to build an electric overland tram between Ōfuna and Chigasaki , but the license expired in 1930 without any construction work. Instead, the company took up bus operations in July 1927 and acquired the railway line between Fujisawa and Kamakura from Tōkyō Dentō on July 1, 1928. On October 20, 1938, the government decreed to merge with the Tōkyō Yokohama Dentetsu (now Tōkyū ) to increase the efficiency of the management during the Pacific War . From 1947 Enoshima Dentetsu was independent again, its shares were traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange from May 1949 .
Associated with the IPO was the renaming of the company in Enoshima Kamakura Kankō and from 1951 an expansion into tourism corresponding to the new name. On August 1, 1953, Odakyū Dentetsu took over the majority of the shares, since then the company has been a subsidiary of the Odakyu Group . After stock trading was suspended in 1979, it was renamed Enoshima Dentetsu on September 1, 1981. Bus traffic was outsourced to the subordinate company Enoden Bus on August 12, 1998 . Since 2009 there has been a partnership agreement with the Keifuku Denki Tetsudō railway company in Kyoto . On April 26, 2019, the Odakyu Group became fully owned by Enoshima Dentetsu through a share swap.
Web links
- Enoshima Dentetsu (Japanese, English)
- Enoden Bus (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 会 社 概要. Enoshima Dentetsu, 2018, accessed July 10, 2019 (Japanese, Company Profile).
- ↑ a b c 沿革. Enoshima Dentetsu, accessed July 10, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 祝 江 ノ 電 ・ 嵐 電 姉妹 提携！ 嵐 電 『江 ノ 電 号』 が 出 発 し ま し た. Keifuku Denki Tetsudō, October 14, 2009, accessed July 10, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 簡易 株 式 交換 に よ る 江 ノ 島 電 鉄 株式会社 の 完全 子 会 社 化 に 関 す る お 知 ら せ. (PDF, 338 kB) Odakyu Group, April 26, 2019, accessed July 10, 2019 (Japanese).