| Central Japan Railway Company | |
| Native Name: | 東海旅客鉄道株式会社 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Romanized Name: | Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō (lit. "Tōkai Passenger Railway") kabushiki gaisha |
| Type: | Public (KK) |
| Traded As: |
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| Predecessor: | Japanese National Railways (JNR) |
| Foundation: | , privatization of JNR |
| Location City: | JR Central Towers 1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 450-6101 |
| Location Country: | Japan |
| Area Served: | Tōkai region |
| Key People: | Shin Kaneko, Chairman Shunsuke Niwa, President [1] |
| Industry: | Private railway |
| Products: | TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card) |
| Services: | passenger railways[2] travel agency services wholesale and retail parking lot operations real estate food and beverage sales casualty insurance other related services |
| Revenue: | (2014)[3] |
| Operating Income: | (2014) |
| Net Income: | (2014) |
| Assets: | (2014) |
| Equity: | (2014) |
| Owner: | Public float, largest single shareholder: Mizuho Bank (4.39%) |
| Num Employees: | 16,193 (as of March 31, 2008) |
| Divisions: | Conventional lines operations[4] Shinkansen operations |
| Subsid: | 39 group companies, including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)[5] |
| Homepage: | english.jr-central.co.jp/index.html |
| Central Japan Railway Company | |
| Nationalrailway: | Japan Railways Group |
| Infrastructure: | Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency |
| Ridership: | 0.528 billion per year |
| Passkm: | 55.811 billion per year |
| Length: | 1970.8km (1,224.6miles) |
| Doublelength: | 1086.8km (675.3miles) (55.1%) |
| Ellength: | 1491.7km (926.9miles) (75.7%) |
| Hslength: | 552.6km (343.4miles) (28.0%) |
| El: | 1,500 V DC overhead catenary 1418.2km (881.2miles) |
| El1length: | 552.6km (343.4miles) Tokaido Shinkansen |
| Nostations: | 403 |
| Map: | Service area Shinkansen station layouts TOICA Service Area |
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|links=no). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical 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 station.[6] The busiest and longest railway line operated by JR Central is the Tōkaidō Main Line between and . The company also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between and . 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.
Tokyo Station - Shin-Ōsaka Station 552.6 km
Kameyama Station - Shingū Station 180.2 km
Matsusaka Station - Ise-Okitsu Station 43.5 km
Taki Station - Toba Station 29.1 km
Kachigawa Station - Biwajima Station 11.2 km (trains are operated by Tokai Transport Service Company, not JR Central)
The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates: