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 . The term Tōkai refers to the Tōkai region (the southern portion of Central Japan), 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 building. The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is the Tōkaidō Main Line between and ; this largely parallels the company's high-speed rail service, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which runs between and . JR Central is additionally responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen – an under-construction maglev service between Tokyo and Osaka, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2034.
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. Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.
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 only three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR East and JR West. It is one of Nagoya's gosanke companies along with Toyota and the Chubu Electric Power Company.
Lines
Shinkansen Tōkaidō Shinkansen: Tokyo–Ōsaka Chūō Shinkansen (maglev): Tokyo–Nagoya (under construction)
Conventional lines : Atami–Maibara Branch line: Ōgaki–Mino-Akasaka : Kōzu–Numazu Minobu Line: Fuji–Kōfu Iida Line: Toyohashi–Tatsuno Taketoyo Line: Ōbu–Taketoyo Chūō Main Line: Shiojiri–Nagoya Takayama Main Line: Gifu–Inotani Taita Line: Tajimi–Mino-Ōta Kansai Main Line: Nagoya–Kameyama Kisei Main Line: Kameyama–Shingū Meishō Line: Matsusaka–Ise-Okitsu Sangū Line: Taki–Toba Jōhoku Line: Kachigawa–Biwajima (trains operated by subsidiary JR Central Transport Service Company)
Named train services Fujikawa (–) Hida (Nagoya/–, & ) Hikari (Tokyo–Hakata & ) Inaji (–) Kodama (Tokyo–, Shin-Ōsaka–Hakata & Hakataminami) Mie (Nagoya– & ) Nanki (– & ) Nozomi (Tokyo–) Odoriko (– & ) Shinano (Nagoya– & ) Sunrise Izumo (Tokyo–) Sunrise Seto (Tokyo–)
Affiliates The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:
Transportation JR Tokai Bus Company JR Tokai Logistics Company (:ja:ジェイアール東海物流株式会社) JR Central Transport Service Company First Air Transport Co., Ltd. (:ja:ファーストエアートランスポート株式会社)
Merchandise JR Tokai Corporation (:ja:ジェイアール東海商事株式会社) JR Tokai Takashimaya Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海高島屋) JR-Central Passengers Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海パッセンジャーズ) JR Tokai Food Service Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアール東海フードサービス株式会社) Tokai Kiosk Company (:ja:東海キヨスク株式会社)
Construction JR Tokai Construction Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアール東海建設株式会社) JR Central Consultants Company (:ja:ジェイアール東海コンサルタンツ株式会社) The Nihon Kikai Hosen Co., Ltd (:ja:日本機械保線株式会社) Futaba Tetsudo Kogyo Co., Ltd. (:ja:双葉鉄道工業株式会社) CN Construction Co., Ltd. (:ja:シーエヌ建設株式会社)
Information systems JR Tokai Information Systems Company (:ja:ジェイアール東海情報システム株式会社) Shinsei Technos Co., Ltd.(:ja:新生テクノス株式会社)
Hotels and resorts JR Tokai Hotels Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海ホテルズ) Nagoya Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd. (:ja:名古屋ターミナルホテル株式会社) Shizuoka Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd. (:ja:静岡ターミナルホテル株式会社)
Travel JR Tokai Agency Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海エージェンシー) JR Tokai Tours (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海ツアーズ) Hida Forest City Planning Co., Ltd. (:ja:飛騨森林都市企画株式会社)
Publishing Wedge Inc. (株式会社ウェッジ)
Rolling stock Shinkansen Engineering Co., Ltd. (:ja:新幹線エンジニアリング株式会社) Tokai Rolling Stock & Machinery Co., Ltd. (:ja:東海交通機械株式会社) Nippon Sharyo, Ltd
Maintenance Chuoh Linen Supply Co., Ltd. (:ja:中央リネンサプライ株式会社) JR Tokai General Building Maintenance Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアール東海総合ビルメンテナンス株式会社) Central Maintenance Co., Ltd. (:ja:セントラルメンテナンス株式会社) Shinkansen Service & Technology Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:関西新幹線サービック) Shinkansen Maintenance Tokai Co., Ltd. (:ja:新幹線メンテナンス東海株式会社) Tokai Seibi Co., Ltd. (:ja:東海整備株式会社)
Real estate JR Central Building Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアールセントラルビル株式会社) JR Development and Management Corporation of Kansai (:ja:ジェイアール東海関西開発株式会社) JR Development and Management Corporation of Shizuoka (:ja:ジェイアール東海静岡開発株式会社) JR Tokai Real Estate Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアール東海不動産株式会社) Shizuoka Terminal Development Co., Ltd. (:ja:静岡ターミナル開発株式会社) Shin-Yokohama Station Development Co., Ltd. (:ja:新横浜ステーション開発株株式会社) Tokyo Station Development Co., Ltd. (:ja:東京ステーション開発株式会社) Toyohashi Station Building Co., Ltd. (:ja:豊橋ステーションビル株式会社) Nagoya Station Area Development Corporation (:ja:名古屋ステーション開発株式会社) Nagoya Terminal Station Building Co., Ltd. (:ja:名古屋ターミナルビル株式会社) Hamamatsu Terminal Development Co., Ltd. (:ja:浜松ターミナル開発株式会社)
Other services JR Tokai Well Co., Ltd. (株式会社:ja:ジェイアール東海ウェル) JR Tokai Partners Co., Ltd. (:ja:ジェイアール東海パートナーズ株式会社)
References
External links
Central Japan Railway Company Central Japan Railway Company| SCMAGLEV Official Website Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Central Japan Railway Company