Central Japan Railway Company

The Central Japan Railway Company[5] 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.

Central Japan Railway Company

The JR Central Towers company headquarters located above Nagoya Station
Native name	東海旅客鉄道株式会社
Romanized name	Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō (lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway") kabushiki gaisha
Type	Public (KK)
Traded as	TYO: 9022 NAG: 9022 Nikkei 225 component (TYO) TOPIX Core30 component (TYO)
Industry	Private railway
Predecessor	Japanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded	1 April 1987 (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	Koei Tsuge, Chairman Shin Kaneko, President
Products	TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services	passenger railways[1] travel agency services[1] wholesale and retail[1] parking lot operations[1] real estate[1] food and beverage sales[1] casualty insurance[1] other related services[1]
Revenue	¥1,672,295 million (2014)[2]
Operating income	¥506,598 million (2014)[2]
Net income	¥264,134 million (2014)[2]
Total assets	¥5,217,982 million (2014)[2]
Total equity	¥2,020,196 million (2014)[2]
Owner	Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%)
Number of employees	16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)[1]
Divisions	Conventional lines operations[3] Shinkansen operations[3]
Subsidiaries	39 group companies,[1] including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[4]
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[1]
Passenger km	55.811 billion per year[1]
System length
Total	1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi)[1]
Double track	1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%)[1]
Electrified	1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%)[1]
High-speed	552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%)[1]
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)[1]
25 kV AC 60 Hz overhead	552.6 km (343.4 mi)[1] Tokaido Shinkansen
Features
No. stations	403[1]
Map Service area Shinkansen station layouts TOICA Service Area (in Japanese)

JR Central's operational hub is Nagoya Station and the company's administrative headquarters are located in the JR Central Towers above the station.[6] 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.[7] Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.[7]

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.