1 April 1987; 37 years ago (1987-04-01), privatization of JNR
Headquarters
JR Central Towers 1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 450-6101
,
Japan
Area served
Tōkai region
Key people
Shin Kaneko, Chairman
Shunsuke Niwa, President [1]
Products
TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services
passenger railways[2] travel agency services[2] wholesale and retail[2] parking lot operations[2] real estate[2] food and beverage sales[2] casualty insurance[2] other related services[2]
Revenue
¥1,672,295 million (2014)[3]
Operating income
¥506,598 million (2014)[3]
Net income
¥264,134 million (2014)[3]
Total assets
¥5,217,982 million (2014)[3]
Total equity
¥2,020,196 million (2014)[3]
Owner
Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%)
39 group companies,[2] including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[5]
Website
english.jr-central.co.jp/index.html
Central Japan Railway Company
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[2]
Passenger km
55.811 billion per year[2]
System length
Total
1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi)[2]
Double track
1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%)[2]
Electrified
1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%)[2]
High-speed
552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%)[2]
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 1,418.2 km (881.2 mi)[2]
25 kV AC 60 Hz overhead
552.6 km (343.4 mi)[2] Tokaido Shinkansen
Features
No. stations
403[2]
Map
Service area Shinkansen station layouts TOICA Service Area (in Japanese)
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The Central Japan Railway Company[6] is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (Japanese: JR東海). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region 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 station.[7] The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami and Maibara. The company also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka. Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen—a maglev service between Tokyo and Osaka, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027.
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.[8] Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.[8]
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 the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR East and JR West. It is also one of Nagoya's gosanke companies along with Toyota and the Chubu Electric Power Company.[citation needed]
^Central Japan Railway Company. "Board of Directors, Audit and Supervisory Board Members and Corporate officers (as of June, 2023)". Retrieved 27 February 2024.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrsCentral Japan Railway Company. "Data book 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 30 June 2009.
^ abcdeCentral Japan Railway Company. Annual Report 2015 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 10 January 2016.
^ abCentral Japan Railway Company. "Organization Chart (As of July, 2008)". Retrieved 30 June 2009.
^Central Japan Railway Company. "Notice concerning Change of Specified Subsidiary" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
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