| 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: | https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/ |
| 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: | , 1418.2km (881.2miles) |
| El1: | High-speed |
| El1length: | , 552.6km (343.4miles) |
| 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 occasionally as JR Tokai (ja|JR東海|links=no).[6] The term Tōkai refers to the Tōkai region (the southern portion of Central Japan), 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.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9] Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.[9]
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.
Kachigawa–Biwajima (trains operated by subsidiary JR Central Transport Service Company)
The JR Central Group consists of JR Central and the following affiliates:
