Shinano Railway is also the name of a former operator of the Ōito Line
Shinano Railway
Native name
しなの鉄道
Company type
Third sector
Genre
Rail transport
Founded
May 1, 1996
Headquarters
Ueda, Nagano
,
Japan
Area served
Nagano Prefecture
Key people
Takeharu Fujii (President)
Services
Passenger railway
Owner
Nagano Prefecture (73.64%) Nagano City (3.88%) Governments of Ueda, Komoro, Chikuma, Saku, Tōmi, Karuizawa, Miyota, Sakaki (totalling 12.98%) Hachijūni Bank (2.69%) Others (totalling 6.81%)
Number of employees
251 (As of 1 March 2015[update])
Website
www.shinanorailway.co.jp
The Shinano Railway Co., Ltd. (しなの鉄道株式会社, Shinano Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 1996 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR East Shinetsu Main Line within Nagano Prefecture when it was separated from the JR East network in October 1997, coinciding with the opening of the Nagano Shinkansen (Hokuriku Shinkansen) from Takasaki to Nagano. The company was founded on May 1, 1996, and has its headquarters in Ueda, Nagano.[1]
^会社概要／沿革 [Company Overview and History] (in Japanese). Japan: Shinano Railway. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
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