Central Japan Railway

Central Japan Railway Company

Native name	東海旅客鉄道株式会社
Type	Public KK
Traded as	: TOPIX Core 30 Component
Industry	Private railway
Predecessor	Japanese National Railways (JNR)
Founded	April 1, 1987 (privatization of JNR)
Headquarters	JR Central Towers 1-1-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 450-6101, Japan
Area served	Tokai region
Key people	Yoshiyuki Kasai, Chairman Masayuki Matsumoto, President
Products	TOICA, EX-IC (a rechargeable contactless smart card)
Services	passenger railways travel agency services wholesale and retail parking lot operations real estate food and beverage sales casualty insurance other related services
Revenue	¥1,672,295 million (2014)
Operating income	¥506,598 million (2014)
Net income	¥264,134 million (2014)
Total assets	¥5,217,982 million (2014)
Total equity	¥2,020,196 million (2014)
Owner	Mizuho Corporate Bank (4.37%) Japan Trustee Services Bank (4.29%) The Master Trust Bank of Japan (3.48%) The Nomura Trust & Banking Co. (3.18%) The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (2.98%) Nippon Life (2.23%) Toyota Motors (1.79%) The JR Central Employees Shareholding Association (1.73%) Mizuho Bank (1.53%) (as of March 31, 2009)
Number of employees	16,193 (as of March 31, 2008)
Divisions	Conventional lines operations Shinkansen operations
Subsidiaries	39 group companies, including Nippon Sharyo (since October 2008)
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
Passenger km	55.811 billion per year
System length
Total	1,970.8 km (1,224.6 mi)
Double track	1,086.8 km (675.3 mi) (55.1%)
Electrified	1,491.7 km (926.9 mi) (75.7%)
High-speed	552.6 km (343.4 mi) (28.0%)
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)
25 kV AC 60 Hz overhead	552.6 km (343.4 mi) Tokaido Shinkansen
Features
No. stations	403
Map Service area Shinkansen station layouts TOICA Service Area (in Japanese)

The Central Japan Railway Company (東海旅客鉄道株式会社, Tōkai Ryokaku Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) 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 (JR東海). Its headquarters are located in the JR Central Towers in Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.

The company's operational hub is Nagoya Station. The busiest railway line it operates is the Tōkaidō Main Line between Atami Station and Maibara Station. JR Central also operates the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo Station and Shin-Ōsaka Station. Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen—a proposed maglev service between Tokyo Station (or Shinagawa Station) and Ōsaka Station (or Shin-Ōsaka Station), of which a short demonstration section has been built. Currently, the company is conducting demonstrations of its shinkansen to railway officials from different countries in the effort to market bullet train technology overseas.

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. Japan recorded a total of 289 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009.