East Japan Railway Company

The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon) in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, next to Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is one of three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR Central and JR West.

East Japan Railway Company

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Wiki English The company headquarters in Shibuya ward, Tokyo
Native name	東日本旅客鉄道株式会社
Romanized name	Higashi-Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha lit. 'East Japan Passenger Railway Share Company'
Company type	Public (Kabushiki gaisha)
Traded as	TYO: 9020 Nikkei 225 component TOPIX Large70 component
Industry	Rail transport
Predecessor	Japanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded	1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1987-04-01), privatization of JNR
Headquarters	2-2-2 Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Kanto and Tōhoku regions Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures
Key people	Tetsuro Tomita (Chairman of the Board) Masaki Ogata (Vice Chairman of the Board) Yuji Fukasawa (President, Representative Director)
Products	Suica (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services	Passenger railways freight services bus transportation other related services
Revenue	¥2,405,538 million(FY 2023) ¥1,978,967 million(FY 2022) ¥2,756,165 million(FY 2015)
Operating income	¥140,629 million(FY 2023) ¥153,938 million(FY 2022) ¥487,821 million(FY 2016) ¥427,522 million(FY 2015)
Net income	¥245,310 million(FY 2016) ¥180,398 million(FY 2015)
Total assets	¥7,789,762 million(FY 2016) ¥7,605,690 million(FY 2015)
Total equity	¥2,442,129 million(FY 2016) ¥2,285,658 million(FY 2015)
Owner	JTSB investment trusts (8.21%) Mizuho Bank (4.07%) TMTBJ investment trusts (3.97%) MUFG Bank (2.75%) Repurchased shares (2.67%) (as of 30 September 2018)
Number of employees	73,017 (as of 31 March 2013)
Divisions	Railway operations Life-style business IT & Suica business
Subsidiaries	83 companies, including Tokyo Monorail and J-TREC
Website	www.jreast.co.jp
Footnotes / references

East Japan Railway Company
Line up of JR East Shinkansen trains, October 2009
Operation
National railway	Japan Railways Group
Infrastructure company	Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency
Statistics
Ridership	6.169 billion per year
Passenger km	130.5 billion per year
System length
Total	7,512.6 km (4,668.1 mi)
Double track	3,668 km (2,279 mi) (49%)
Electrified	5,512.7 km (3,425.4 mi) (73.2%)
High-speed	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) (14.0%)
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 DC overhead catenary 2,680.3 km (1,665.5 mi)
20 kV AC, 50 Hz	1,779.5 km (1,105.7 mi) Conventional lines in Tohoku Joban Line (Fujishiro-Iwanuma) Mito Line
25 kV AC, 50/60 Hz overhead	1,052.9 km (654.2 mi) Tohoku Shinkansen (50 Hz) Joetsu Shinkansen (50 Hz) Hokuriku Shinkansen (50/60 Hz)
Features
No. tunnels	1,263
Tunnel length	882 km (548 mi)
Longest tunnel	The Seikan Tunnel 53,850 m (176,670 ft) Hokkaido Shinkansen
No. bridges	14,865
Longest bridge	No.1 Kitakami River Bridge 3,868 m (12,690 ft) Tohoku Shinkansen
No. stations	1,681
Map Shinkansen lines Conventional lines Greater Tokyo Area Network Map Suica and PASMO Network Map

JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002.

Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on former JNR lines in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Tōhoku region, and surrounding areas.

 

Railway lines of JR East primarily serve the Kanto and Tohoku regions, along with adjacent areas in Kōshin'etsu region (Niigata, Nagano, Yamanashi) and Shizuoka prefectures.

Shinkansen

Kanto region

These lines have sections inside the Tokyo suburban area (Japanese: 東京近郊区間) designated by JR East. This does not necessarily mean that the lines are fully inside the Greater Tokyo Area.

Koshinetsu region

Tohoku region

Below is the full list of limited express and express train services operated on JR East lines as of 2022.

Shinkansen

• Asama
• Hakutaka
• Hayabusa
• Hayate
• Kagayaki
• Komachi
• Nasuno
• Tanigawa
• Toki
• Tsubasa
• Yamabiko

Limited express (daytime)

• Kusatzu
• Akagi
• Azusa
• Fuji Excursion
• Hitachi and Tokiwa
• Inaho
• Kaiji/View Kaiji
• Kusatsu
• Narita Express
• Nikkō and Kinugawa
• Saphir Odoriko/Odoriko
• Sazanami
• Shirayuki
• Shiosai
• Shōnan
• Tsugaru
• Wakashio

Limited express (overnight)

• Sunrise Izumo/Sunrise Seto (not operated by JR East, operated by JR Central and JR-West over the Tokaido Main Line, part of which JR East owns between Tokyo and Atami)

During fiscal 2017, the busiest stations in the JR East network by average daily passenger count were:

1. Shinjuku Station (778,618)
2. Ikebukuro Station (566,516)
3. Tokyo Station (452,549)
4. Yokohama Station (420,192)
5. Shinagawa Station (378,566)
6. Shibuya Station (370,669)
7. Shimbashi Station (277,404)
8. Omiya Station (255,147)
9. Akihabara Station (250,251)
10. Kita-Senju Station (217,838)

 

• Higashi-Nihon Kiosk - provides newspapers, drinks and other items in station kiosks and operates the Newdays convenience store chain
• JR Bus Kanto / JR Bus Tohoku - intercity bus operators
• Nippon Restaurant Enterprise - provides bentō box lunches on trains and in train stations
• Tokyo Monorail - (70% ownership stake)
• East Japan Marketing & Communications

JR East co-sponsors the JEF United Chiba J-League football club ^{[citation needed]}, which was formed by a merger between the JR East and Furukawa Electric company teams.

JR East aims to reduce its carbon emissions by half, as measured over the period 1990–2030. This would be achieved by increasing the efficiency of trains and company-owned thermal power stations and by developing hybrid trains.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has stated that JR East's official union is a front for a revolutionary political organization called the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction). An investigation of this is ongoing.^[when?]

The East Japan Railway Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization established by JR East for the purpose of developing a "richer railway culture". The Railway Museum in Saitama is operated by the foundation.

JR East holds a 15% shareholding in West Midlands Trains with Abellio and Mitsui that commenced operating the West Midlands franchise in England in December 2017. The same consortium has also been listed to bid for the South Eastern franchise.