Asahi Motor Explained

ASAHI Motor Corporation
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:11 January 1941
Headquarters:1119, Fukuroyama, Koshigaya, Saitama (埼玉県越谷市袋山1119)[1]
Service Type:Land Transportation (Buses and Taxies)
Fleet:100[2]
Ceo:神﨑 満
Website:http://www.asahibus.jp/

The is a bus company within the Tobu Group which was established on 11 January 1941 in Tsuchiura.[3] [4] [5] [6]

Overview

ASAHI Motor was established on 11 January 1941 in Tsuchiura as a company for taxis and buses. The taxi business of Tobu Railway on stations which belonged to Tobu Railway transferred to this company in 1954. The company has established its inroads bus business since 1993 as which charters buses that are used on route buses by requesting from a local government.

The company received ownership of offices and vehicles of the Tobu Railway bus department in 1994. Between 1999 and 2002, the bus company transferred a selection of offices and other vehicles from Tobu Bus. The transfer of assets ended in 2002 when Tobu Bus spilt from Tobu Railway. ASAHI Motor discontinued its chartered bus business in 2008, at which point the business was split into subsidiary companies.

The company owns shares of Bando Bus and other companies. Its parent company, Asahi Motor Corporation Group, owns TOHOKU KYUKO BUS, Kan-etsu Kotsu, Nikko-koutsu, Kokusai Juo Bus, KAWAGOE Motor, Bando BUS, and IBAKYU Motor.

Offices and routes

It is located near the head office of Tobu Railway in Oshiage Station.

It is located near Ōbukuro Station on Tobu Skytree Line

Kiryu Asahi Motor Corporation

Community buses

Entrust this company from each local government.
Tokyo

Saitama

Chiba

Ibaraki

Other bus routes

Other bus companies of TOBU GROUP

Tohoku Kyuko Bus

TOHOKU KYUKO BUS CO., LTD.
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:4 April 2002
Headquarters:2-6-6, Shinonome, Koto, Tokyo (東京都江東区東雲二丁目6番6号)[7]
Service Type:Bus
Routes:Route map
Fleet:20
Ceo:成木 千里
Website:TOHOKU KYUKO BUS

The is a subsidiary company of Tobu Railway and belongs to Asahi Motor Corporation Group.[8] The head office is located in Tokyo Office.

Overview

In 1962, the company was established by capital injection of Tobu Railway and Toya Kotsu, Miyagi Transportation and Fukushima Transportation, Aizu Bus, Yamagata Kotsu. In 2002, Tohoku Kyuko Bus started to be an affiliated company of Tobu Railway because Tobu Railway received other shares.

History

Started to manage chartered buses at the Tokyo Office

This company has belonged to Tobu Railway

Office

It is located head office of this company. Opened in 1962.

It is located near Sendai Station at 1-1-7, Motomachi, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi

It is located at 2, Azuma, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi

Highway buses

NOTerminusViaTerminusNote
New Star/Holiday StarTokyo StationNon stopSendai Station
RainbowTokyo StationFukushima Station, Yonezawa StationYamagata Station
TOKYO SUNRISETokyo StationMurayama StationShinjō StationOperated with Yamagata Kotsu
Flying Liner/Flying SneakerTokyo Disney ResortTokyo Station - Kyōto Station - Ōsaka StationŌsaka Abenobashi StationOperated with Kintetsu Bus
Mamakari LinerTokyo Disney ResortTokyo Station - Okayama StationKurashiki StationOperated with Ryobi Bus. When passengers reserve the seats, only telephone reservation for Tohoku Kyuko Bus.
LeBlancShinonome ShakoTokyo StationYokohama StationTsuyama StationOkayama StationOperated with Ryobi Bus
KimasshiShinonome ShakoUeno StationToyama StationKanazawa StationOperated with Kitanippon Kanko Bus
Tokyo - Kinugawaonsen Nikko LineTokyo StationShimo-Imaichi StationTōbu-Nikkō StationTobu World SquareKinugawa-Onsen Station

Kan-etsu Kotsu

Kan-etsu Kotsu CO., LTD.
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:15 June 1953 (as Minakami Kanko Car)
Headquarters:608-1 Nakamura, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan (群馬県渋川市中村608-1)
Service Type:Bus
Fleet:210
Ceo:佐藤 俊也
Website:Kan-etsu Kotsu

The is a subsidiary company of Tobu Railway and belongs to Asahi Motor Corporation Group.[9] The head office is located in Shibukawa.

Overview

The company was established on 15 June 1953 as and has belonged to Tobu Railway since March 1960. It was renamed to its current name on 1 November 1972. It has been operating bus routes since 1982.

Agatsuma Kanko Motor, established on 5 November 1953, and had belonged to Tobu Group from 1969 until October 2002 when it was merged into Kan-etsu Kotsu.

Gunma Kanko Taxi established in 1950, belonged to Tobu Bus Group from 1957 until 2000 when it was merged.

The bus company runs in the area based in the stations which belong to Jōetsu Line and Jōetsu Shinkansen.

Office

Highway buses

NOTerminusViaTerminusNote
AzaleaIkaho OnsenMaebashi Station, Takasaki StationNarita AirportOperated with Chiba Kotsu
Shima OnsenShinonome ShakoTokyo Station, Shibukawa Station, Nakanojō StationShimaonsen
OZE SHINJUKUShinjuku StationKawagoe StationOshimizu
APPLENumata StationGunma Prefectural HallGundai Hospital
Fujikyu Highland LineShibukawa OfficeShibukawa Station - Maebashi Station - Takasaki Station - Fuji-Q HighlandKawaguchiko StationOperated with Fujikyu Bus
Joshu Yukemuri Liner Minakami OnsenShinjuku StationKawagoe Station, Jōmō-Kōgen StationMinakami Station
Joshu Yukemuri Ikaho/ShimaonsenShin-Koshigaya StationKawagoe StationShibukawa Station・Ikaho OnsenShima Onsen
Katashina Snow ExpressShinjuku StationNon stopMichi no eki Katashina

Ticket

About one diary tickets for sightseeing in Gunma

Nikko Kotsu

Nikko-koutsu CO., LTD.
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:25 May 1955
Headquarters:8-1 Aioi, Nikko, Tochigi, Japan (栃木県日光市相生町8-1)
Service Area:Tochigi
Service Type:Bus and Ropeway
Routes:Route map
Ceo:渡辺 剛志
Website:Nikko Kotsu

The is a subsidiary company of Tobu Railway. The head office is located in Nikko Office.

Overview

The company established on 25 May 1955, was transferred Akechidaira Ropeway from Tobu Railway on 1 April 1985. Tobu Dial Bus was merged to this company in 2008. The bus company runs in the vicinity of the Watarase Keikoku Line and the Tobu Kinugawa Line.

Office

Express buses

NOTerminusViaTerminusNote
Nikko Nasu Mankitsu LinerTōbu-Nikkō StationKinugawa-Onsen Station, Yunishigawa-Onsen StationNasu Yumoto OnsenOperated with Toya Kotsu
Nikko Kinugawa ExpressKinugawa-Onsen StationTōbu-Nikkō StationNikkō Tōshō-gū

Subsidiary company

Akechidaira Ropeway

Tickets

About tickets for Nikko

Kokusai Juo Bus

Kokusai Juo CO., LTD.
Parent:Tobu Railway, ASAHI Motor, Bando Bus
Founded:26 December 1957 (As Kokusai Hire)
Headquarters:263-1 Niijima, Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan (埼玉県熊谷市新島263-1)[10]
Service Area:Saitama
Routes:Route map
Ceo:中村 良夫
Website:Kokusai Juo Bus

is a subsidiary company of ASAHI Motor and Bando Bus and Tobu Railway. The head office is located in Nikko Office.[4] [5]

Overview

The company was established on 26 December 1957 as Kokusai Hire which was a subsidiary company of Kokusai Kogyo. Kokusai Hire was merged into Ryomo Kanko Motor in 2002, which subsequently merged Juo Motor on 1 January 2004. The new company was renamed to Kokusai Juo.

Its operations are in the vicinity of the Tobu Isesaki Line and the Takasaki Line.

Office

Bus routes

Route buses

Most bus routes are connected Higashi-Matsuyama Station and Shinrinkōen Station (Saitama) with Kumagaya Station as the result of the discontinuation of the Tobu Kumagaya Line.

Expressway buses

KAWAGOE Motor

KAWAGOE Motor Corporation
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:4 August 1966 (Establishment in 1933 as Kawagoe Motor LLC)
Headquarters:3897-3 Namegawa, Hiki, Saitama, Japan (埼玉県比企郡滑川町3897-3)
Service Area:Saitama
Routes:Route map
Fleet:92
Ceo:石井 英俊
Website:Kawagoe Motor

The is a subsidiary company of Tobu Railway. The head office is located in Shinrinkoen Office.

Outline

The company was established on 3 August 1933 as Kawagoe Motor LLC, and has belonged to Tobu Group since 1962. Meanwhile, KAWAGOE Motor Corporation was established on 4 August 1966. Kawagoe Motor LLC merged into KAWAGOE Motor Corporation on 1 November 1966.

Operations on bus routes started on 1 April 1998. Buses serve in the vicinity of the Tōbu Tōjō Line, Tobu Ogose Line, and the Takasaki Line.

Office

Expressway buses

Bando Bus

BANDO BUS inc.
Parent:ASAHI Motor
Founded:15 November 1949
Headquarters:2-36-22 Higashi-Abiko, Abiko, Chiba, Japan (千葉県我孫子市東我孫子2-36-22)
Service Area:Chiba
Routes:Route map
Ceo:神崎 満
Website:Bando Bus

is a subsidiary company of ASAHI Motor. The head office is located in Abiko Office.

Overview

The company was established in November 1949 by local people because routes buses ran in Imba area had belonged to Tobu Railway since February 1958 until 2003.

The company has belonged to ASAHI Motor since 2003. It runs in the vicinity of the Jōban Line.

Office

Community buses

IBAKYU Motor

IBAKYU Motor Corporation
Parent:Tobu Railway
Founded:16 June 1950 (As Uchiyama Un'yu)
Headquarters:28-1 Chikuhichi, Matsubushi, Kita-Katsushika, Saitama, Japan (埼玉県北葛飾郡松伏町大字築比地28-1)
Service Area:Saitama
Routes:Route map
Ceo:大館 広知
Website:IBAKYU Motor

The is a subsidiary company of Tobu Railway. The head office is located in Matsubushi Office.

Overview

The company was established as in 1950 as Uchiyama Un'yua and has been owned by the Tobu Group Company since 1963. That same year, it was renamed IBAKYU Motor.

It runs in the vicinity of the Tōbu Urban Park Line, Tobu Skytree Line, and the Utsunomiya Line.

Office

See also

Other bus companies of Tobu Group

Former companies belonging to Tobu Group

Tobu Railway

External links

Notes and References

  1. The management head office of company is located 1-33-12 Mukojima, Sumida, Tokyo, Japan (東京都墨田区向島1-33-12 第2東武館5階)
  2. https://www.asahibus.jp/cms-pdf/news/f3fb9168fa11b7a3ff24c26185bddf1b53104120201506.pdf Vehicles
  3. http://www.asahibus.jp/ ASAHI MOTOR Website (ja)
  4. https://tcue.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=957&file_id=20&file_no=1 Gunma Bus
  5. https://tcue.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=957&file_id=20&file_no=2 Gunma Bus
  6. https://tcue.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1126&file_id=21&file_no=1 About Asahi Motor
  7. The management head office of company is located 1-1-2 Mukojima, Sumida, Tokyo, Japan (東京都墨田区向島1-1-2)
  8. http://www.tohoku-express.co.jp/ Tohoku Kyuko Bus
  9. https://kan-etsu.net/publics/index/2/ Kan-etsu Kotsu
  10. The management office is located 1-1-2, Oshiage, Sumida, Tokyo(東京都墨田区押上1-1-2)