Shizuoka Tetsudo
| Shizuoka Tetsudō KK Shizuoka Railway Co., Ltd. |
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Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | May 1, 1919 |
| Seat | Shizuoka |
| Number of employees | 608 |
| Branch | Transport, retail, tourism, real estate |
| Website | Shizuoka Tetsudo |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Shizuoka Tetsudo ( Jap . 静岡鉄道株式会社 , Shizuoka Tetsudo Kabushiki-gaisha , Engl. Shizuoka Railway Co., Ltd. ), under its abbreviation Shizutetsu ( 静鉄 known), is a Japanese railway company . The Shizuoka- based company operates a rail line, an aerial tramway and numerous bus routes. There are also various other business areas.
Corporate structure
Main company
The core business is the operation of the Shizuoka-Shimizu line . This eleven-kilometer railway line connects Shin-Shizuoka with Shin-Shimizu . It is not connected to any other railway line and is more like a light rail. The railway company also operates the Nihondaira cable car , an aerial cableway to the Nihondaira panoramic mountain.
Shizuoka Tetsudō also includes the following business areas:
- Real estate trading
- advertising agency
- Shizutetsu Hotel Prezio
- Nursing
- Daycare
- flower shop
The following routes were closed:
Subsidiaries
The Shizuoka Tetsudō are subordinate to more than two dozen subsidiaries in the areas of transport, retail, vehicle trade, real estate, leisure and construction. Together with the main company, they employ a total of 4607 people (as of March 2017). These include:
- Shizutetsu Justline (public buses in Shizuoka and long-distance bus routes)
- Kakegawa Bus Service (public buses in Kakegawa )
- Akiha Bus Service (regular buses in Fukuroi , Mori and the surrounding area)
- Shizutetsu Joystep Bus (coach transport)
- Shizutetsu Store (department store chain with 34 branches)
history
On August 21, 1906, the first company named Shizuoka Tetsudō ( 静岡 鉄 道 ) was founded. It opened the first section of the Shizuoka-Shimizu line on May 18, 1908 , which was completed on December 9 of the same year. In the meantime, the railway company went on July 28, 1908 in the possession of the all over Japan operating tram company Dai Nippon Kidō ( 大 igen 軌道 ), who made it an independent branch . As part of a streamlining of the corporate structure, Shizuoka Tetsudō was re-established and made independent on May 1, 1919 by means of a management buy-out . On June 28, 1922, she opened the Shizuoka tram , which was connected to the Shizuoka-Shimizu line.
To refer to the recently carried out electrification of their main line, the railway company appeared from February 28, 1923 under the new name Shizuoka Denki Tetsudō ( 静岡 電 気 鉄 道 ). Almost two weeks later, on March 12, 1923, it took over the Akiba Line , a 12 km long interurban tram in the nearby city of Fukuroi . On December 25, 1928, she opened the Shimizu tram , which was also connected to the Shizuoka-Shimizu line. In 1929 a bus transport department was added. During the Second World War , the government sought to group small transport companies into larger units, thereby increasing their efficiency. After the enactment of the "Law to Adjust Land Transport Business", several companies in the Shizuoka area had to merge on May 15, 1943 under the umbrella of the again renamed Shizuoka Tetsudō. This came into the possession of the Sun'en line .
The major railway company Tōkyū then temporarily owned the majority of the shares, but in 1947 it sold a large part of the stake (Tōkyū is still the largest shareholder today, but its stake is less than 4%). In 1953, Shizuoka Tetsudō went into the taxi business , and a year later into the automobile trade (as a contractual partner of Toyota ). In 1957 the Nihondaira cable car opened. 1963 the entry into the real estate business. Gradually, the Shizuoka Tetsudō concentrated in the rail business on the highly profitable main line between Shizuoka and Shimizu. In 1962 it shut down the Shizuoka tram and the Akiba line, in 1970 the Sun'en line and in 1974 the Shimizu tram. On the other hand, the bus network continued to expand, even outside the city limits.
Similar to other Japanese private railways, Shizuoka Tetsudō also expanded into business areas that are only marginally related to rail or bus transport and are geared towards generating transport demand that optimally benefits the vertically integrated group of companies. The bus traffic , which had grown considerably in the meantime, was outsourced to the subsidiary Shizutetsu Justline on May 1, 2002 in order to relieve the railway management.
Web links
- Shizuoka Tetsudō (Japanese)
- Shizutetsu Rail Traffic (Japanese)
- Bus service from Shizutetsu Justline (Japanese)