East Japan Railway Company

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Higashi-Nihon ryokaku tetsudō KK
engl. East Japan Railway Co.

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legal form Kabushiki kaisha
ISIN JP3783600004
founding April 1, 1987
Seat Shibuya , Tokyo Prefecture , JapanJapanJapan 
management Tetsuro Tomita
Number of employees 73,329 (2015)
sales 2.76 Brd. JPY (2014/15) EUR
21.4 billion
Branch traffic
Website www.jreast.co.jp

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The company's headquarters are located in the JR Higashi-Nihon Building in Tokyo 's Yoyogi district , near Shinjuku Station
Tokyo train station

East Japan Railway Company ( English for Japanese 東 日本 旅客 鉄 道 株式会社 , Higashi-Nihon ryokaku tetsudō Kabushiki kaisha , lit. " East Japanese passenger railway corporation") also often as JR Higashi-Nihon ( JR 東 日本 ), engl. JR East , abbreviated, listed on the Nikkei 225 , is one of the world's largest rail companies for passenger and one of seven successors of 1987 privatized Japanese National Railways (Engl. Japanese National Railways ).

The largest shareholder (as of March 31, 2015) is the Mizuho Financial Group with 4.99% of the shares.

history

The company was founded on April 1, 1987 after the Japanese State Railway Company was privatized and split up. Although this was actually a "privatization", the company was still completely state-owned for the following years and it was not until 2002 that the last shares were sold.

After the dissolution of the JNR, JR East took over the operation of the passenger traffic on the former JNR routes in the Tokyo area and the Tohoku region .

In 1991, JR East bought the Tohoku and Joetsu lines from JNR for a total (converted) of 37 billion Deutschmarks.

Lines

JR East Shinkansen Series 200 ~ E5
Azusa ・ Kaiji (Series E353)
Yamanote Line (Series E235)
Resort-shirakami-Buna (Kiha HB-E300 series)

Mainly the Kantō region and the Tohoku region are supplied, as well as a few peripheral areas of the prefectures Niigata , Nagano , Yamanashi and Shizuoka .

Shinkansen

JR East operates all Shinkansen (bullet train) north of Tokyo.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen (Tokyo - Osaka) is operated by JR Central , although it stops at several JR East train stations.

Greater Tokyo

Tōkai and Kōshin'etsu regional trains

Tōhoku regional trains

other areas

Tōkyō monorail
  • Higashi-Nihon Kiosk - operates Newday's chain of stores and the kiosks at the train stations
  • JR Bus Kantō / JR Bus Tohoku - bus routes between cities
  • Nippon Restaurant Enterprise - Serves prepackaged food on trains and stations
  • Tōkyō Monorail - Waterfront monorail line in Tokyo (70 percent share, since March 18, 2007 100 percent)

Web links

Commons : East Japan Railway Company  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 2015 Annual Report , accessed June 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date March 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ Reporting income and profits at JR . In: Railway technical review . 42, No. 5, 1993, p. 279.