Central Japan Railway Company
is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and occasionally as JR Tokai. The term Tōkai refers to the Tōkai 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 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 : Tokyo–Nagoya ''
Conventional lines
- Tōkaidō Main Line: Atami–Maibara
- *Branch line: Ōgaki–Mino-Akasaka
- Gotemba Line: 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
Named train services
Fujikawa Hida Hikari Inaji Kodama Mie Nanki Nozomi Odoriko Shinano Sunrise Izumo- ''Sunrise Seto''
Affiliates
The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:Transportation
- JR Tokai Bus Company
- JR Tokai Logistics Company
- JR Central Transport Service Company
- First Air Transport Co., Ltd.
Merchandise
- JR Tokai Corporation
- JR Tokai Takashimaya Co., Ltd.
- JR-Central Passengers Co., Ltd.
- JR Tokai Food Service Co., Ltd.
- Tokai Kiosk Company
Construction
- JR Tokai Construction Co., Ltd.
- JR Central Consultants Company
- The Nihon Kikai Hosen Co., Ltd
- Futaba Tetsudo Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- CN Construction Co., Ltd.
Information systems
- JR Tokai Information Systems Company
- Shinsei Technos Co., Ltd.
Hotels and resorts
- JR Tokai Hotels Co., Ltd.
- Nagoya Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd.
- Shizuoka Terminal Hotel Co., Ltd.
Travel
- JR Tokai Agency Co., Ltd.
- JR Tokai Tours
- Hida Forest City Planning Co., Ltd.
Publishing
- Wedge Inc.
Rolling stock
- Shinkansen Engineering Co., Ltd.
- Tokai Rolling Stock & Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Nippon Sharyo, Ltd
Maintenance
- Chuoh Linen Supply Co., Ltd.
- JR Tokai General Building Maintenance Co., Ltd.
- Central Maintenance Co., Ltd.
- Shinkansen Service & Technology Co., Ltd.
- Shinkansen Maintenance Tokai Co., Ltd.
- Tokai Seibi Co., Ltd.
Real estate
- JR Central Building Co., Ltd.
- JR Development and Management Corporation of Kansai
- JR Development and Management Corporation of Shizuoka
- JR Tokai Real Estate Co., Ltd.
- Shizuoka Terminal Development Co., Ltd.
- Shin-Yokohama Station Development Co., Ltd.
- Tokyo Station Development Co., Ltd.
- Toyohashi Station Building Co., Ltd.
- Nagoya Station Area Development Corporation
- Nagoya Terminal Station Building Co., Ltd.
- Hamamatsu Terminal Development Co., Ltd.
Other services
- JR Tokai Well Co., Ltd.
- JR Tokai Partners Co., Ltd.