Keio Dentetsu Bus

The history of the bus of Keio starts for the Keio Denki Kidō Co. to have opened the bus on April 15, 1913 in the section where the railroad is not opened for traffic (between Shinjuku Station - Sasazuka Station and between Chōfu Station - Fuchū Station - Kokubunji Station). Although these were the first bus business in Tokyo, the tone of the provisional means of transport was deep, and canceled between Chōfu Station - Kokubunji Station in 1914, between Shinjuku Station - Sasazuka Station was abolished with railroad commencement of business in 1915, and all have taken down the curtain for a short period of time.

Keio sets about a bus enterprise in early stages of Shōwa period again. Banzai Jidōsha Co.(万歳自動車) which operated around the bus from the end of Taishō period changed the company name to the Kōshū Kaidō Noriai Jidōsha Co.(甲州街道乗合自動車) in July, 1924, and the route was extended to Tama-mura Tokyo city-owned park cemetery (present Tama Cemetery) through Karasuyama and Chofu. However, Keio which has a railroad in parallel to the Kōshū Kaidō felt this as the threat, and made more than the majority of the holdings of the company acquisition and an associated company in May, 1927. Furthermore, the Keio acquired Kōshū Kaidō Noriai Jidōsha in 1937, and absorbed enterprise all. Thereby, the automobile division and Sasazuka office were installed and the bus enterprise of the direct management which leads to the present Keio Dentetsu Bus Group was resumed. Hachiōji Shigai Jidōsha Co.(八王子市街自動車) was purchased and the Hachioji Office was established in 1938. Moreover, Takahata Noriai (高幡乗合) is purchased in the same year, Yugi Noriai Jidōsha (由木乗合自動車) was purchased in 1939, and these enterprises were absorbed. The Pacific War broke out and the route within Yamanote Line was transferred to Tokyo City on February 1, 1942 for the war integration based on a land transport business method of preparation. Moreover, the Keio came to be merged by Tokyu Corporation on May 31, 1944 (Keio Teito Electric Railway dissociated from Tokyu in 1948).

Head Office of Keio Dentetsu Bus and its subsidiaries - 2-22, Harumichō, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

• Keio Dentetsu Bus
  • Hachioji Depot (八王子営業所) - 1304-3, Naganumamachi, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
  • Sakuragaoka Depot (桜ヶ丘営業所) - 4-898, Ochikawa, Hino, Tokyo, Japan.
• Keio Bus Higashi
  • Nakano Depot (中野営業所) - 51-9, Yayoichō 2-chōme, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
  • Eifukucho Depot (永福町営業所) - 60-19, Eifuku 2-chōme, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
  • Chofu Depot (調布営業所) - 6-6, Kokuryōchō, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
  • Setagaya Depot (世田谷営業所) - 9-1, Kami-Kitazawa, 5-chōme, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Chuo
  • Fuchu Depot (府中営業所) - 22, Harumichō 2-chōme, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Minami
  • Minami-Osawa Depot (南大沢営業所) - 26-1, Minami-Ōsawa 5-chōme, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
  • Tama Depot (多摩営業所) - 1-1, Minamino 1-chōme, Tama, Tokyo, Japan
  • Terada Branch Office (寺田支所) - 374-1, Teradamachi, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan
• Keio Bus Koganei
  • Koganei Depot (小金井営業所) - 3-31, Honchō 5-chōme, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan

Nissan Diesel JP introduced in 1995

The vehicles introduced from four manufacturers, Hino, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso and Nissan Diesel, are held into the Keio Dentetsu Bus Group. Although the general route vehicle is introduced from all these four manufacturers, the rate of the Nissan Diesel vehicles is slightly high. The reason is that the one-step vehicles with narrow width and long body (Nissan Diesel JP) were purchased in lump sum from Nissan Diesel in advancing low floor-ization of vehicles in the mid-1990s.

• List of bus operating companies in Japan (east)
• Keio Corporation
• Nishi Tokyo Bus

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• Bus-Navi.com (in Japanese) (for timetable information)